Humphris Home-Land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State

Romanian Roma and making new citizens in an era of uncertainty
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0194-9
Verlag: Bristol University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Global Migration and Social Change

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 how the nation-state is reproduced within the home, the book considers what it is like to have your legal status, your right to ‘belong’, judged from your everyday domestic life. In essence this book is about the divide between state and family, home-land and home and what it means for the new rules of citizenship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Humphris, Rachel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface;

Introduction: Romanian Roma, motherhood and the home;

Chapter 1: Home truths: fieldwork, writing and anthropology’s ‘home encounter’;

Interlude: Facebook with Cristina;

Chapter 2: Shifting faces of the state: austerity, post-welfare and frontline work;

Interlude: Disappearing Dinni;

Chapter 3: Romanian Roma mothers: labelling and negotiating stigma;

Interlude: Remembering Brussels with Georgeta;

Chapter 4: Intimate bureaucracy and home encounters;

Interlude: Clara’s Belgian torte;

Chapter 5: Gender and intimate state encounters;

Interlude: Losing Sophia and Angela;

Chapter 6: Borders and intimate state encounters;

Conclusion: Homemade state: intimate state encounters at the margins;

Über Autor(innen)

Humphris, Rachel
Rachel Humphris is a Lecturer and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. She has held visiting fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, University of California Berkeley and York University Toronto.