1. The European Roma and their Securitization: Contexts, Junctures, Challenges
Huub van Baar, Ana Ivasiuc, and Regina Kreide
Part One: Mobility
2. The Securitization of Roma Mobilities and the Re-Bordering of Europe
Nicholas De Genova
3. Crossing (out) Borders: Human Rights and the Securitization of Roma Minorities
Regina Kreide
4. Domestic versus State Reason? How Roma Migrants in France Deal with Their Securitization
Olivier Legros and Marion Lièvre
Part Two: Marketization
5. The Invisibilization of Anti-Roma Racisms
Ryan Powell and Huub van Baar
6. Security at the Nexus of Space and Class: Roma and Gentrification in Cluj, Romania
Manuel Mireanu
7. The Entertaining Enemy: ‘Gypsy’ in Popular Culture in an Age of Securitization
Annabel Tremlett
Part Three: Development
8. From ‘Lagging Behind’ to ‘Being Beneath’? The De-developmentalization of Time and Social Order in Contemporary Europe
Huub van Baar
9. Illusionary Inclusion of Roma through Intercultural Mediation
Angéla Kóczé
10. Voluntary Return as Forced Mobility: Humanitarianism and the Securitization of Romani Migrants in Spain
Ioana Vrăbiescu
Part Four: Visuality
11. Sharing the Insecure Sensible: The Circulation of Images of Roma on Social Media
Ana Ivasiuc
12. The “Gypsy Threat”: Modes of Racialization and Visual Representation Underlying German Police Practices
Markus End
13. Roma Securitization and De-securitization in Habsburg Europe
Marija Dalbello
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.
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.