The Securitization of the Roma in Europe

Reflects on the mechanisms through which the Roma and their situation have increasingly been securitized in post-1989 Europe

Investigates Roma problematization not only in the context of (regimes of) bordering-crossing and mobility, but also in that of development, neoliberalism, racialization, racism and visuality

Shows that development programs focusing on the social inclusion of the Roma and neoliberal policies concentrating on gentrification or conditional access to housing and employment have ambiguously contributed to the current Roma-related political impasses and the renewal of anti-Roma racism

Autorentext
Huub van Baar is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, and Senior Research Fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
**Ana Ivasiuc is Researcher at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.
**Regina Kreide is Professor of Political Theory at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany.

Inhalt

1. The European Roma and their Securitization: Contexts, Junctures, Challenges.- 2. The Securitization of Roma Mobilities and the Re-Bordering of Europe.- 3. Crossing (out) Borders: Human Rights and the Securitization of Roma Minorities.- 4. Domestic versus State Reason? How Roma Migrants in France Deal with Their Securitization.- 5. The Invisibilization of Anti-Roma Racisms.- 6. Security at the Nexus of Space and Class: Roma and Gentrification in Cluj, Romania.- 7. The Entertaining Enemy: 'Gypsy' in Popular Culture in an Age of Securitization.- 8. From 'Lagging Behind' to 'Being Beneath'? The De developmentalization of Time and Social Order in Contemporary Europe.- 9. Illusionary Inclusion of Roma through Intercultural Mediation.- 10. Voluntary Return as Forced Mobility: Humanitarianism and the Securitization of Romani Migrants in Spain.- 11. Sharing the Insecure Sensible: The Circulation of Images of Roma on Social Media.- 12. The Gypsy Threat: Modes of Racialization and Visual Representation Underlying German Police Practices.- 13. Roma Securitization and De-securitization in Habsburg Europe.