Racialized Bordering Discourses on European Roma

This book explores the relationship between the racialization and discrimination experienced by heterogeneous European Roma populations, and the processes of everyday bordering embedded in state policies. It was first 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.

Introduction: racialized bordering discourses on European Roma 1. Follow the money: international donors, external homelands and their effect on Romani media and advocacy 2. Roma communities, urban development and social bordering in the inner city of Budapest 3. Media mirrors? Framing Hungarian Romani migration to Canada in Hungarian and Canadian press 4. Coping with everyday bordering: Roma migrants and gatekeepers in Helsinki 5. "People think that Romanians and Roma are the same": everyday bordering and the lifting of transitional controls 6. Press discourses on Roma in the UK, Finland and Hungary