Nira Yuval Davis - Racialized Bordering Discourses on European Roma

Using detailed examples from Finland, Hungary, Canada and the UK, this book explores relationships between the racialization and discrimination experienced by heterogeneous European Roma populations, and the processes of everyday bordering embedded in state policies and media discourses. In the context of the long histories of discrimination experienced by Roma people across Europe, the chapters engage with changing European Union (EU) policies, including the recent tensions between inter-European de-bordering and the selective immigration policies introduced as different states react to EU free movement. Using an intersectional analysis, the authors capture the perspectives of differentially situated people and associated discourses to examine the continuing racism experienced by European Roma citizens in their interaction with bordering technologies. They examine the homogenizing racial othering and construction of Roma as a criminal category that coexists with the differentiations made between indigenous and migrant Roma central to dominant bordering discourses and the contestations of different Roma populations. Chapters focus on Roma activism and the media, the exclusion of Roma residents via urban regeneration and welfare provision, and powerful media and political discourses about Roma populations in different national and transnational contexts.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Nira Yuval-Davis is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London, UK.

Georgie Wemyss is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London, UK.

Kathryn Cassidy is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Northumbria University, UK.

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The journal Ethnic and Racial Studies was founded in 1978 by John Stone to provide an international forum for high-quality research on race, ethnicity, nationalism and ethnic conflict. At the time, the study of race and ethnicity was still a relatively marginal subfield of sociology, anthropology and political science. In the intervening period, the journal has provided a space for the discussion of core theoretical issues, key developments and trends, and for the dissemination of the latest empirical research.

It is now the leading journal in its field and has helped to shape the development of scholarly research agendas. Ethnic and Racial Studies attracts submissions from scholars in a diverse range of countries and fields of scholarship, and crosses disciplinary boundaries. It is now available in both printed and electronic form. From 2015 it is publishing 15 issues per year, 3 of which are dedicated to Ethnic and Racial Studies Review offering expert guidance to the latest research through the publication of book reviews, symposia and discussion pieces, including reviews of work in languages other than English.

The Ethnic and Racial Studies book series contains a wide range of the journals special issues. These special issues are an important contribution to the work of the journal, where leading social science academics bring together articles on specific themes and issues that are linked to the broad intellectual concerns of Ethnic and Racial Studies. The series editors work closely with the guest editors of the special issues to ensure that they meet the highest quality standards possible. Through publishing these special issues as a series of books, we hope to allow a wider audience of both scholars and students from across the social science disciplines to engage with the work of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Most recent titles in the series include the following:
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Edited by Zulema Valdez and Mary Romero

Immigrant Incorporation in Political Parties

Exploring the diversity gap

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Racialized Bordering Discourses on European Roma

Edited by Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn Cassidy

Edited by
Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn Cassidy

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Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn Cassidy

Shayna Plaut

Krisztina Keresztly, James W. Scott and Tnde Virg

Viktor Varj and Shayna Plaut

Miika Tervonen and Anca Enache

Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn Cassidy

Nira Yuval-Davis, Viktor Varj, Miika Tervonen, Jamie Hakim and Mastoureh Fathi

The chapters in this book were originally published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 40, issue 7 (2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn Cassidy

Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 40, issue 7 (2017) pp. 10471057

Shayna Plaut

Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 40, issue 7 (2017) pp. 10581076

Krisztina Keresztly, James W. Scott and Tnde Virg

Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 40, issue 7 (2017) pp. 10771095

Viktor Varj and Shayna Plaut

Ethnic and Racial Studies, volume 40, issue 7 (2017) pp. 10961113