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“People think that Romanians and Roma are the same”: everyday bordering and the lifting of transitional controls

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ABSTRACT On 1 January 2014 the transitional controls on free movement adopted by the UK when Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU in 2007, ended. This paper demonstrates how the… Click to show full abstract

ABSTRACT On 1 January 2014 the transitional controls on free movement adopted by the UK when Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU in 2007, ended. This paper demonstrates how the discourses of politicians relating to their removal, amplified via news media contributed to the extension of state bordering practices further into everyday life. Based on ethnographic research into everyday bordering during 2013–15 the paper uses an intersectional framework to explore how this homogenizing, bordering discourse was experienced and contested from differently situated perspectives of Roma and non-Roma social actors from established communities.

Keywords: everyday bordering; transitional controls; romanians roma; bordering; people think; think romanians

Journal Title: Ethnic and Racial Studies
Year Published: 2017

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