The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism

(Un)uttered Sentences
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-04998-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

Anti-Roma racism, one of Europe’s oldest and most enduring racisms, has been neglected in mainstream theories and discourse. This book situates anti-Roma racism within national and intra-continental histories and global scholarship, exploring its specific and universal underpinnings and manifestations and its interconnectedness with other systems of oppression.

The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism offers a theoretical perspective on the roots of anti-Roma racism, tracing its genesis in the system of racialized slavery in the principalities of Molvoda and Wallachia and the politics of killings, expulsions, and entry bans across Europe in the late Middle Ages. Furthermore, employing theoretical frameworks of structural oppressions, anti-colonial and decolonial thought, racialization, and intersectionality, this book analyzes how deep historical legacies continue to shape anti-Roma racism as an enduring, structural form of oppression.

This scholarly work is essential for policymakers, practitioners, scholars, and students working on the sociology of racialization, global race and structural racisms, and European history. It defines, categorizes, and unpacks the processes and mechanisms of racialization and anti-Roma racism, shedding light on a system of oppression too often left unspoken.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matache, Margareta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword, by Angela Kocze; 1 Introduction; 2 A Positional Exploration of My Family History; 3 Roma People: Who Can We Become?; 4 An Examination of Roma People’s Structural Oppression (Ofitsialo Telchudipen); 5 Geneses of Anti-Roma Racism; 6 Placing the Origins of Anti-Roma Racism in the Global Scholarship on Racisms and Systems of Caste; 7 Telaveriaripen (Racialization) and Gadjoness; 8 Telaveriaripen: Patterns in the Racialization of Roma People; 9 Absolute Racialization: Kin Racializing and Dehumanizing Processes; 10 Organized Killings as Law; 11 Bodily Violence; 12 Organized Erasure of Roma History and Culture; 13 Dur-rigate-dinipe – Apartness; 14 Gadjikane Politics and Policymaking; 15 Epilogue: Letter to My Nephew on the Menace of Gadjoness; Postscript

Über Autor(innen)

Margareta Matache is a lecturer in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the co-founder and the director of the Roma Program at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University. She is also a member of the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination, and Global Health and co-editor of Time for Reparations: A Global Perspective (2021) and Realizing Roma Rights (2017). With over 25 years of experience in organizational leadership, policy advocacy, social change interventions, and academic work, Dr. Matache has dedicated her career to understanding, framing, and addressing anti-Roma racism and other systems of oppression.