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The making of a ‘risk population’: categorisations of Roma and ethnic boundary-making among Czech- and Slovak-speaking migrants in Glasgow

Guma, Taulant

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Abstract

This paper critically examines the processes of categorisation of Roma migrants in Glasgow, contributing to debates on the (unsuccessful) attempts of the EU and individual European states to tackle the social exclusion of various Roma populations living in Europe. Hitherto little attention has been paid to how measures aimed at improving the lives of Roma actually ‘work’ in practice, especially in the context of more recent Roma migration within Europe. Moreover, the role that ethnicity plays ‘on the ground’ has often been overlooked or taken for granted in the relevant literature. Based on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork with Czech- and Slovak-speaking migrants, including Roma, in Glasgow in 2012, this paper aims to address this gap in the literature. Adopting a boundary-making perspective on ethnicity to analyse interactions in institutionalised settings, it traces and discusses various practices through which ‘the Roma’ were constructed as ‘a risk population’ in the city.

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Guma, T. (2018). The making of a ‘risk population’: categorisations of Roma and ethnic boundary-making among Czech- and Slovak-speaking migrants in Glasgow. Identities, 26(6), 668-687. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2018.1441690

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 13, 2018
Online Publication Date Feb 26, 2018
Publication Date 2018
Deposit Date Feb 21, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Identities
Print ISSN 1070-289X
Electronic ISSN 1547-3384
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 26
Issue 6
Pages 668-687
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2018.1441690
Keywords Roma, migration, categorisations, ethnic boundary-making, formalised settings, Glasgow
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1605921

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