Home-Land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State : Romanian Roma and making new citizens in an era of uncertainty /

In contemporary society, passport checks at nation-state borders are accepted. But what if these checks were happening in our own home? This book is the first intimate ethnography of these governing encounters in the home space between Romanian Roma migrants and local frontline workers. Focusing on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Humphris, Rachel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago, IL, USA : Bristol University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Romanies > Social conditions.
Romanies > Ethnic identity.
Romanies.
Ethnic relations.
Emigration and immigration.
Society.
Romanies > Romania.
Romanies > Great Britain > Ethnic identity.
Romanies > Migrations.
Romanies > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Romania.
Great Britain.
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration.
Great Britain > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Romanian Roma, motherhood and the home
  • Home truths : fieldwork, writing and anthropology's 'home encounter'
  • Interlude : Facebook with Cristina
  • Shifting faces of the state: austerity, post-welfare and frontline work
  • Interlude : Disappearing Dinni
  • Romanian Roma mothers : labelling and negotiating stigma
  • Interlude : Remembering Brussels with Georgeta
  • Intimate bureaucracy and home encounters
  • Interlude : Clara's Belgian torte
  • Gender and intimate state encounters
  • Interlude : Losing Sophia and Angela
  • Borders and intimate state encounters
  • Conclusion: Homemade state : intimate state encounters at the margins.

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