Home-Land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State, livre ebook

• Rich and long-term ethnographic detail provides insight into the lived experiences of the migrants in the study;

• Will reflect on Brexit and the potential consequences for new migrants and service providers;

• In addition to the ethnographic data it Includes interviews with local government officials, elected local officials, frontline state actors, frontline non-state actors and volunteers which provide an in-depth account of the politics and policies of the local area in a time of austerity and legal change.

In contemporary society, passport checks at nation-state borders are accepted. But what if these checks were happening in our own home? This book is the first intimate ethnography of these governing encounters in the home space between Romanian Roma migrants and local frontline workers.

Focusing on how the nation-state is reproduced within the home, the book considers what it is like to have your legal status, your right to ‘belong’, judged from your everyday domestic life. In essence this book is about the divide between state and family, home-land and home and what it means for the new rules of citizenship.

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;