The Securitization of the Roma in Europe

This book discusses how Europe's Roma minorities have often been perceived as a threat to majority cultures and societies. Frequently, the Roma have become the target of nationalism, extremism, and racism. At the same time, they have been approached in terms of human rights and become the focus of programs dedicated to inclusion, anti-discrimination, and combatting poverty. This book reflects on this situation from the viewpoint of how the Roma are often 'securitized,' understood and perceived as 'security problems.' The authors discuss practices of securitization and the ways in which they have been challenged, and they offer an original contribution to debates about security and human rights interventions at a time in which multiple crises both in and of Europe are going hand-in-hand with intensified xenophobia and security rhetoric. 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.

Auteur
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.

Contenu

1. The European Roma and their Securitization: Contexts, Junctures, ChallengesHuub van Baar, Ana Ivasiuc, and Regina Kreide

   Part One: Mobility

2. The Securitization of Roma Mobilities and the Re-Bordering of EuropeNicholas De Genova

3. Crossing (out) Borders: Human Rights and the Securitization of Roma MinoritiesRegina Kreide

4. Domestic versus State Reason? How Roma Migrants in France Deal with Their SecuritizationOlivier Legros and Marion Lièvre

   Part Two: Marketization

5. The Invisibilization of Anti-Roma RacismsRyan Powell and Huub van Baar

   6. Security at the Nexus of Space and Class: Roma and Gentrification in Cluj, RomaniaManuel Mireanu

6. The Entertaining Enemy: 'Gypsy' in Popular Culture in an Age of SecuritizationAnnabel Tremlett

   Part Three: Development

7. From 'Lagging Behind' to 'Being Beneath'? The De-developmentalization of Time and Social Order in Contemporary EuropeHuub van Baar

   9. Illusionary Inclusion of Roma through Intercultural MediationAngéla Kóczé

8. Voluntary Return as Forced Mobility: Humanitarianism and the Securitization of Romani Migrants in SpainIoana Vrbiescu

   Part Four: Visuality

9. Sharing the Insecure Sensible: The Circulation of Images of Roma on Social MediaAna Ivasiuc

10. The Gypsy Threat: Modes of Racialization and Visual Representation Underlying German Police PracticesMarkus End

    13. Roma Securitization and De-securitization in Habsburg Europe
    Marija Dalbello