Yaron Matras - Open Borders, Unlocked Cultures: Romanian Roma Migrants in Western Europe

The book examines some of the dilemmas surrounding Europes open borders, migrations, and identities through the prism of the Roma Europes most dispersedand socially marginalised population. The volume challenges some of the myths surrounding the Roma as a problem population, and places the focus instead on the context of European policy and identity debates. It comes to the conclusion that the migration of Roma and the constitution of their communities is shaped by European policy as much as and often more so than by the cultural traits of the Roma themselves. The chapters compare case studies of Roma migrants in Spain, Italy, France, and Britain, and the impact of migration on the origin communities in Romania. The study combines historical and ethnographic methods with insights from migration studies, drawing on a unique multi-sitecollaborative project that for the first time gave Roma participants a voice in shaping research into their communities.

Yaron Matras is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester.

Daniele Viktor Leggio is Research Associate at the University of Manchester.

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Open Borders, Unlocked Cultures
Romanian Roma Migrants in Western Europe
Edited by Yaron Matras and Daniele Viktor Leggio

Edited by Yaron Matras and Daniele Viktor Leggio

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DANIELE VIKTOR LEGGIO AND YARON MATRAS

HENRIETTE ASSO, PETRE PETCU, AND LEONARDO PIASERE

STEFNIA TOMA CTLINA TESR, AND LSZL

JUAN FRANCISCO GAMELLA, GIUSEPPE BELUSCHI-FABENI, ELISABETH GMEZ OEHLER, AND VASILE MUNTEAN

STEFANIA PONTRANDOLFO

GRGOIRE COUSIN

YARON MATRAS AND DANIELE VIKTOR LEGGIO

Henriette Asso, Professor of History at the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales/Fondation Maison des Sciences de lHomme, Paris.

Giuseppe Beluschi-Fabeni, Research Associate at the Universidad de Granada.

Grgoire Cousin, Research Associate at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de lHomme, Paris.

Lszl Foszt, Researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (ISPMN).

Juan Francisco Gamella, Professor of Anthropology at the Universidad de Granada.

Elisabeth Gmez Oehler, Research Associate at the Universidad de Granada.

Daniele Viktor Leggio, Research Associate at the University of Manchester.

Yaron Matras, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester.

Vasile Muntean, Research Assistant at the Universidad de Granada.

Petre Petcu, Research Assistant at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de lHomme, Paris.

Leonardo Piasere, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Verona.

Stefania Pontrandolfo, Lecturer in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Verona.

Ctlina Tesr, Research Associate at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (ISPMN).

Stefnia Toma, Researcher at the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities (ISPMN).

The research leading to the present publication results from MigRom The immigration of Romanian Roma to Western Europe: Causes, effects and future engagement strategies, a project funded by the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme under the call on Dealing with diversity and cohesion: the case of the Roma in the European Union (GA319901), 20132017.

The editors and contributors wish to thank the consortiums management staff: Charlotte Jones, Hazel Gardner, Alex Robertson, and Chris White for their invaluable support; Ramona Constantin, Henriett Dink, Florin Nita, Cayetano Fernndez Ortega, Mirela Steel, Claudia Iancu Stoian, Daniel Stoian, and Leo Tanase for their contribution to data collection, archiving, and assessment and to the projects outreach work; Elaine Mills, Keiran Barnes, and Robert Rustem for their contribution to shaping the projects impact and public engagement agenda; Marianna Agoni, Jenni Berlin, Leonie Gaiser, Francesco Fattori, Suzana Jovanovi, Anna Lowenstein, Anna Maria Meneghini, Nuria Morales, Francesca Pagura, Natalie Parr, Juan Prez, Angela Petre, Eva Rizzin, Daniel Tomescu, and Sabrina Tosi Cambini for their input into the data evaluation process; Ilsen About, Carmen Castilla, Dana Diminescu, Sylvie Gangloff, Francisco Jimnez-Bautista, Olivier Legros, Ester Mass, Arturo lvarez Roldn, Augustin ru, and Tommaso Vitale for sharing their expertise in specific fields; Elisabeth Tauber for her role as the consortiums ethics advisor; the county archives of Tulcea, Cluj, and Oradea for enabling access; and Marie Ramot, Monica Menapace, and Raffaella Greco-Tonegutti, who served as the projects contact persons at the European Commission. We also thank Jack Cox, Margalit Chu, and Nora Scott for their help with translation, and Amelia Jane Abercrombie for copy-editing support in preparation of this manuscript.