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Roma Migrants in the European Union
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011
More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article dis... more More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article discusses whether the research applications to one London prison are aimed at understanding a prisoner population characterised by significant multinational and multilingual complexity. We studied all accessible documents relating to research undertaken at a women's prison between 2005 and 2009 to assess the involvement of Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. The source of information was prison research applications and protocols. We also looked at available final research reports and journal articles. Two key findings emerged from this study. First, studies at this prison frequently excluded Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. Second, Foreign National prisoners were often clustered as a homogeneous category in the research reports reviewed. This is despite their diverse cultural backgrounds, their variable immigration status and their differing competence in English, all of which affect their lives. The failure to include and/or identify social subgroups of the population can undermine the value of research, including, in the case of the study prison, funded health research. This can compromise associated needs assessments and service delivery, particularly important in already disadvantaged populations; this may encourage and/or perpetuate a range of health inequalities. There is a pressing need to examine cultural exclusion in other health and criminal justice settings, to assess the ways in which-and the extent to which-such exclusion may compromise the merit of proposed and completed health and social research.
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011
More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article dis... more More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article discusses whether the research applications to one London prison are aimed at understanding a prisoner population characterised by significant multinational and multilingual complexity. We studied all accessible documents relating to research undertaken at a women's prison between 2005 and 2009 to assess the involvement of Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. The source of information was prison research applications and protocols. We also looked at available final research reports and journal articles. Two key findings emerged from this study. First, studies at this prison frequently excluded Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. Second, Foreign National prisoners were often clustered as a homogeneous category in the research reports reviewed. This is despite their diverse cultural backgrounds, their variable immigration status and their differing competence in English, all of which affect their lives. The failure to include and/or identify social subgroups of the population can undermine the value of research, including, in the case of the study prison, funded health research. This can compromise associated needs assessments and service delivery, particularly important in already disadvantaged populations; this may encourage and/or perpetuate a range of health inequalities. There is a pressing need to examine cultural exclusion in other health and criminal justice settings, to assess the ways in which-and the extent to which-such exclusion may compromise the merit of proposed and completed health and social research.
Notranja, 2016
"Migrant crisis" / "Refugee crisis" The article highlights the fundamentally misleading and unsta... more "Migrant crisis" / "Refugee crisis" The article highlights the fundamentally misleading and unstable nature of the distinctions between the terms "refugees", "asylum-seekers", and "migrants", all of whom experience the precariousness produced by the EU's exclusionary politics on asylum-due to juridical instability and geographical hyper-mobility of migrants subjects. The "hotspot" system, first launched in May 2015, represents the restructuring of mechanisms of capture and identification in response to the migration "turmoil" at the external frontiers of Europe. On the other hand, transit zones such as the Eidomeni camp at the Greek-Macedonian border or the makeshift self-organized refugee / migrant camp at Calais operate informally as de facto "hotspots." What is commonly called "the migrant crisis" or "the refugee crisis" actually reflects the frantic attempt by the EU and European nation-states to control, contain, and govern people's ("unauthorized") transnational and inter-continental movements. Naming it a "refugee/ migrant crisis" appears to be a device for the authorization of exceptional or "emergency" governmental measures-and then their normalization. The very terms "migrant crisis" and "refugee crisis" tend to personalize "crisis" and relocate "crisis" in the body and person of the figurative migrant / refugee, as if s/he is the carrier of a disease called "crisis," and thus carries the contagion of "crisis" wherever s/ he may go. The article calls for attention to the new spaces of "transit" opened up by the migrants and refugees themselves, and consequently the ways in which these "irregular" human mobilities have scrambled and re-shuffled the social and political geography of "Europe."
Članek opozori na zavajajočo in spremenljivo naravo razlik med pojmi »begunci«, »prosilci za azil« in »migranti«, pri čemer vsi ljudje, razvrščeni v te kategorije, doživljajo negotovost, ki jo zaradi pravne nejasnosti in geografske hipermobilnosti migrantskih subjektov povzroča izključevalna azilna politi-ka EU. Sistem t. i. »hotspotov« , ki so ga prvič uveljavili maja 2015, je nov mehanizem zapiranja in identifikacije, ki je nastal kot odziv na migracijsko »vrenje« na zunanjih mejah Evrope. Na drugi strani pa tranzitne cone, kot sta taborišči v Eidomeniju na grško-makedonski meji ali improvizirano samo-organizirano begunsko / migrantsko taborišče v Calaisu, neformalno delujejo kot de facto »hotspo-ti«. Poimenovanje »migrantska kriza« ali »begunska kriza« označuje mrzlični poskus EU in evropskih nacionalnih držav, da nadzorujejo, zadržujejo in upravljajo (»nezakonita«) transnacionalna in medkon-tinentalna gibanja ljudi. Samo imenovanje krize kot begunske / migrantske je mehanizem za sprejem izrednih ali »nujnih« vladnih ukrepov in njihovo normalizacijo, pojma migrantska / begunska kriza pa personificirata krizo in jo prestavljata v telo in osebo figurativnega migranta / begunca, kakor da bi bil ali bila nosilec bolezni, imenovane »kriza«, okužbo z njo pa nosi povsod s seboj. Članek opozarja na nove prostore »tranzita«, ki jih odpirajo sami migranti in begunci, in posledično na načine, na katere so »nezakonite« mobilnosti preplezale in premešale družbeno in politično geografijo »Evrope«.
This special issue showcases work that theorises and critiques the political, economic, legal, an... more This special issue showcases work that theorises and critiques the political, economic, legal, and socio-historical (‘ethnic’ or ‘cultural’) subordination of the European Roma (so-called ‘Gypsies’), from the specific critical vantage point of Roma migrants living and working within and across the space of the European Union (EU). Enabled primarily through ethnographic research with diverse Roma communities across the heterogeneous geography of ‘Europe’, the contributions to this collection are likewise concerned with the larger politics of mobility as a constitutive feature of the sociopolitical formation of the EU. Foregrounding the experiences and perspectives of Roma living and working outside of their nation-states of ‘origin’ or ostensible citizenship, we seek to elucidate wider inequalities and hierarchies at stake in the ongoing (re-)racialisation of Roma migrants, in particular, and imposed upon migrants, generally. Thus, this special issue situates Roma mobility as a critical vantage point for migration studies in Europe. Furthermore, this volume shifts the focus conventionally directed at the academic objectification of ‘the Roma’ as such, and instead seeks to foreground and underscore questions about ‘Europe’, ‘European’-ness, and EU-ropean citizenship that come into sharper focus through the critical lens of Roma racialisation, marginalisation, securitisation, and criminalisation, and the dynamics of Roma mobility within and across the space of ‘Europe’. In this way, this collection contributes new research and expands critical interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersections of Romani studies, ethnic and racial studies, migration studies, political and urban geography, social anthropology, development studies, postcolonial studies, and European studies.
It has become utterly banal to speak of “the crisis” in Europe, even as there have proliferated i... more It has become utterly banal to speak of “the crisis” in Europe, even as there have proliferated invocations of a veritable “crisis of Europe” – a putative crisis of the very idea of “Europe.” This project, aimed at formulating New Keywords of “the Crisis” in and of “Europe,” was initiated in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris in January 2015, and has been brought to a necessarily tentative and only partial “completion” in the aftermath of the subsequent massacre in Paris on 13 November 2015. Eerily resembling a kind of uncanny pair of book-ends, these spectacles of “terror” and “security” (De Genova 2011; 2013a) awkwardly seem to frame what otherwise, during the intervening several months, has been represented as “the migrant crisis,” or “the refugee crisis,” or more broadly, as a “crisis” of the borders of “Europe.” Of course, for several years, the protracted and enduring ramifications of global economic “crisis” and the concomitant policies of austerity have already been a kind of fixture of European social and political life. Similarly, the events in Paris are simply the most recent and most hyper-mediated occasions for a re-intensification of the ongoing processes of securitization that have been a persistent (if inconstant) mandate of the putative Global War on Terror (De Genova 2010a, 2010c). Hence, this collaborative project of collective authorship emerges from an acute sense of the necessity of rethinking the conceptual and discursive categories that govern borders, migration, and asylum and simultaneously overshadow how scholarship and research on these topics commonly come to recapitulate both these dominant discourses and re-reify them.
Journal of medical ethics, 2011
More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article dis... more More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article discusses whether the research applications to one London prison are aimed at understanding a prisoner population characterised by significant multinational and multilingual complexity. We studied all accessible documents relating to research undertaken at a women's prison between 2005 and 2009 to assess the involvement of Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. The source of information was prison research applications and protocols. We also looked at available final research reports and journal articles. Two key findings emerged from this study. First, studies at this prison frequently excluded Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. Second, Foreign National prisoners were often clustered as a homogeneous category in the research reports reviewed. This is despite their diverse cultural backgrounds, their variable immigration status and their differing competence in English, all of which affect their lives. The failure to include and/or identify social subgroups of the population can undermine the value of research, including, in the case of the study prison, funded health research. This can compromise associated needs assessments and service delivery, particularly important in already disadvantaged populations; this may encourage and/or perpetuate a range of health inequalities. There is a pressing need to examine cultural exclusion in other health and criminal justice settings, to assess the ways in which-and the extent to which-such exclusion may compromise the merit of proposed and completed health and social research.
Roma Migrants in the European Union
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011
More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article dis... more More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article discusses whether the research applications to one London prison are aimed at understanding a prisoner population characterised by significant multinational and multilingual complexity. We studied all accessible documents relating to research undertaken at a women's prison between 2005 and 2009 to assess the involvement of Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. The source of information was prison research applications and protocols. We also looked at available final research reports and journal articles. Two key findings emerged from this study. First, studies at this prison frequently excluded Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. Second, Foreign National prisoners were often clustered as a homogeneous category in the research reports reviewed. This is despite their diverse cultural backgrounds, their variable immigration status and their differing competence in English, all of which affect their lives. The failure to include and/or identify social subgroups of the population can undermine the value of research, including, in the case of the study prison, funded health research. This can compromise associated needs assessments and service delivery, particularly important in already disadvantaged populations; this may encourage and/or perpetuate a range of health inequalities. There is a pressing need to examine cultural exclusion in other health and criminal justice settings, to assess the ways in which-and the extent to which-such exclusion may compromise the merit of proposed and completed health and social research.
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2011
More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article dis... more More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article discusses whether the research applications to one London prison are aimed at understanding a prisoner population characterised by significant multinational and multilingual complexity. We studied all accessible documents relating to research undertaken at a women's prison between 2005 and 2009 to assess the involvement of Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. The source of information was prison research applications and protocols. We also looked at available final research reports and journal articles. Two key findings emerged from this study. First, studies at this prison frequently excluded Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. Second, Foreign National prisoners were often clustered as a homogeneous category in the research reports reviewed. This is despite their diverse cultural backgrounds, their variable immigration status and their differing competence in English, all of which affect their lives. The failure to include and/or identify social subgroups of the population can undermine the value of research, including, in the case of the study prison, funded health research. This can compromise associated needs assessments and service delivery, particularly important in already disadvantaged populations; this may encourage and/or perpetuate a range of health inequalities. There is a pressing need to examine cultural exclusion in other health and criminal justice settings, to assess the ways in which-and the extent to which-such exclusion may compromise the merit of proposed and completed health and social research.
Notranja, 2016
"Migrant crisis" / "Refugee crisis" The article highlights the fundamentally misleading and unsta... more "Migrant crisis" / "Refugee crisis" The article highlights the fundamentally misleading and unstable nature of the distinctions between the terms "refugees", "asylum-seekers", and "migrants", all of whom experience the precariousness produced by the EU's exclusionary politics on asylum-due to juridical instability and geographical hyper-mobility of migrants subjects. The "hotspot" system, first launched in May 2015, represents the restructuring of mechanisms of capture and identification in response to the migration "turmoil" at the external frontiers of Europe. On the other hand, transit zones such as the Eidomeni camp at the Greek-Macedonian border or the makeshift self-organized refugee / migrant camp at Calais operate informally as de facto "hotspots." What is commonly called "the migrant crisis" or "the refugee crisis" actually reflects the frantic attempt by the EU and European nation-states to control, contain, and govern people's ("unauthorized") transnational and inter-continental movements. Naming it a "refugee/ migrant crisis" appears to be a device for the authorization of exceptional or "emergency" governmental measures-and then their normalization. The very terms "migrant crisis" and "refugee crisis" tend to personalize "crisis" and relocate "crisis" in the body and person of the figurative migrant / refugee, as if s/he is the carrier of a disease called "crisis," and thus carries the contagion of "crisis" wherever s/ he may go. The article calls for attention to the new spaces of "transit" opened up by the migrants and refugees themselves, and consequently the ways in which these "irregular" human mobilities have scrambled and re-shuffled the social and political geography of "Europe."
Članek opozori na zavajajočo in spremenljivo naravo razlik med pojmi »begunci«, »prosilci za azil« in »migranti«, pri čemer vsi ljudje, razvrščeni v te kategorije, doživljajo negotovost, ki jo zaradi pravne nejasnosti in geografske hipermobilnosti migrantskih subjektov povzroča izključevalna azilna politi-ka EU. Sistem t. i. »hotspotov« , ki so ga prvič uveljavili maja 2015, je nov mehanizem zapiranja in identifikacije, ki je nastal kot odziv na migracijsko »vrenje« na zunanjih mejah Evrope. Na drugi strani pa tranzitne cone, kot sta taborišči v Eidomeniju na grško-makedonski meji ali improvizirano samo-organizirano begunsko / migrantsko taborišče v Calaisu, neformalno delujejo kot de facto »hotspo-ti«. Poimenovanje »migrantska kriza« ali »begunska kriza« označuje mrzlični poskus EU in evropskih nacionalnih držav, da nadzorujejo, zadržujejo in upravljajo (»nezakonita«) transnacionalna in medkon-tinentalna gibanja ljudi. Samo imenovanje krize kot begunske / migrantske je mehanizem za sprejem izrednih ali »nujnih« vladnih ukrepov in njihovo normalizacijo, pojma migrantska / begunska kriza pa personificirata krizo in jo prestavljata v telo in osebo figurativnega migranta / begunca, kakor da bi bil ali bila nosilec bolezni, imenovane »kriza«, okužbo z njo pa nosi povsod s seboj. Članek opozarja na nove prostore »tranzita«, ki jih odpirajo sami migranti in begunci, in posledično na načine, na katere so »nezakonite« mobilnosti preplezale in premešale družbeno in politično geografijo »Evrope«.
This special issue showcases work that theorises and critiques the political, economic, legal, an... more This special issue showcases work that theorises and critiques the political, economic, legal, and socio-historical (‘ethnic’ or ‘cultural’) subordination of the European Roma (so-called ‘Gypsies’), from the specific critical vantage point of Roma migrants living and working within and across the space of the European Union (EU). Enabled primarily through ethnographic research with diverse Roma communities across the heterogeneous geography of ‘Europe’, the contributions to this collection are likewise concerned with the larger politics of mobility as a constitutive feature of the sociopolitical formation of the EU. Foregrounding the experiences and perspectives of Roma living and working outside of their nation-states of ‘origin’ or ostensible citizenship, we seek to elucidate wider inequalities and hierarchies at stake in the ongoing (re-)racialisation of Roma migrants, in particular, and imposed upon migrants, generally. Thus, this special issue situates Roma mobility as a critical vantage point for migration studies in Europe. Furthermore, this volume shifts the focus conventionally directed at the academic objectification of ‘the Roma’ as such, and instead seeks to foreground and underscore questions about ‘Europe’, ‘European’-ness, and EU-ropean citizenship that come into sharper focus through the critical lens of Roma racialisation, marginalisation, securitisation, and criminalisation, and the dynamics of Roma mobility within and across the space of ‘Europe’. In this way, this collection contributes new research and expands critical interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersections of Romani studies, ethnic and racial studies, migration studies, political and urban geography, social anthropology, development studies, postcolonial studies, and European studies.
It has become utterly banal to speak of “the crisis” in Europe, even as there have proliferated i... more It has become utterly banal to speak of “the crisis” in Europe, even as there have proliferated invocations of a veritable “crisis of Europe” – a putative crisis of the very idea of “Europe.” This project, aimed at formulating New Keywords of “the Crisis” in and of “Europe,” was initiated in the immediate aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris in January 2015, and has been brought to a necessarily tentative and only partial “completion” in the aftermath of the subsequent massacre in Paris on 13 November 2015. Eerily resembling a kind of uncanny pair of book-ends, these spectacles of “terror” and “security” (De Genova 2011; 2013a) awkwardly seem to frame what otherwise, during the intervening several months, has been represented as “the migrant crisis,” or “the refugee crisis,” or more broadly, as a “crisis” of the borders of “Europe.” Of course, for several years, the protracted and enduring ramifications of global economic “crisis” and the concomitant policies of austerity have already been a kind of fixture of European social and political life. Similarly, the events in Paris are simply the most recent and most hyper-mediated occasions for a re-intensification of the ongoing processes of securitization that have been a persistent (if inconstant) mandate of the putative Global War on Terror (De Genova 2010a, 2010c). Hence, this collaborative project of collective authorship emerges from an acute sense of the necessity of rethinking the conceptual and discursive categories that govern borders, migration, and asylum and simultaneously overshadow how scholarship and research on these topics commonly come to recapitulate both these dominant discourses and re-reify them.
Journal of medical ethics, 2011
More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article dis... more More than one in 10 of all prisoners in England and Wales are Foreign Nationals. This article discusses whether the research applications to one London prison are aimed at understanding a prisoner population characterised by significant multinational and multilingual complexity. We studied all accessible documents relating to research undertaken at a women's prison between 2005 and 2009 to assess the involvement of Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. The source of information was prison research applications and protocols. We also looked at available final research reports and journal articles. Two key findings emerged from this study. First, studies at this prison frequently excluded Foreign National prisoners and women with limited English. Second, Foreign National prisoners were often clustered as a homogeneous category in the research reports reviewed. This is despite their diverse cultural backgrounds, their variable immigration status and their differing competence in English, all of which affect their lives. The failure to include and/or identify social subgroups of the population can undermine the value of research, including, in the case of the study prison, funded health research. This can compromise associated needs assessments and service delivery, particularly important in already disadvantaged populations; this may encourage and/or perpetuate a range of health inequalities. There is a pressing need to examine cultural exclusion in other health and criminal justice settings, to assess the ways in which-and the extent to which-such exclusion may compromise the merit of proposed and completed health and social research.