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;