Roma Migrants in the European Union

Can Yıldız is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at King’s College London, UK. Her current doctoral research, provisionally titled "The Roma Spectacle: Foreignness, Racialisation, and Mobility among Roma Women in and out of a London Prison," examines the British criminal justice system from the vantage point of eastern European Roma women who serve time in prison for committing petty offences such as pickpocketing and shoplifting. Nicholas De Genova is a scholar of migration, borders, race, citizenship, and labor. He holds an appointment as Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston, USA. He is the author or editor of several books, including The Borders of "Europe": Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering (2017).

Introduction – Un/Free mobility: Roma migrants in the European Union 1. Contained mobility and the racialization of poverty in Europe: the Roma at the development–security nexus 2. Race, migration and neoliberalism: distorted notions of Romani migration in European public discourses 3. Challenging Europe’s external borders and internal boundaries: Bosnian Xoraxané Xomá on the move in Roman peripheries and the contemporary European Union 4. In and out from the European margins: reshuffling mobilities and legal statuses of Romani minorities between the Post-Yugoslav space and the European Union 5. On the threshold: becoming Romanian Roma, everyday racism and residency rights in transition 6. Care-full failure: how auxiliary assistance to poor Roma migrant women in Spain compounds marginalization