Gender and Violence in Romani and Traveller Lives

Paloma Gay Blasco is a senior lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK. Iliana Sarafian is a lecturer in Medical Anthropology at University College London, UK. Raluca Roman is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Researching Gender and Violence in Romani and Traveller Lives—Methods, Ethics, and Dilemmas; Part 1 Identifying; Chapter 2 Living Through and Witnessing Urban Violence in Finland: An Unplanned Reciprocal Ethnography; Chapter 3 Meaning-Making of Obstetric Violence by Kalaydji Roma Women in Bulgaria: Reflections on Methodology; Chapter 4 Encountering Violence: The Policing of Violent Masculinities in Roma Settlements in Rome; Chapter 5 Marital Violence and Spanish Romani Women: Debating Categories and Experiences; Part 2 Communicating; Chapter 6 ‘Do Travellers’ Lives Matter?’ Unmasking the Impact of Structural Violence, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Anti-Traveller Racism on the Mental Health of Irish Traveller Men; Chapter 7 Researching Discrimination and Abuse of Romani Women in Maternity Care: The Relevance of a Fact-Finding Investigation in Hungary; Chapter 8 Humanitarian Protection and the Politics of Labelling: The Case of Displaced Iraqi and Syrian Roma; Part 3 Theorising; Chapter 9 Whiteness, Essentialisms, and Identity Conflicts among Gender and/or Sex-Dissident Rroma; Chapter 10 Dominating Experiences: Psychic and Symbolic Violence against Romani Women in Hungary; Chapter 11 Staying with the Violence: Reflections on Traveller Violence(s), Multi-perspectivism, and Raw Ethnography; Chapter 12 Gendered Reproductions of Epistemic Violence and Embodied Silence