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Mobilizing Romani Ethnicity: Romani Political Activism in Argentina, Colombia and Spain

Mobilizing Romani Ethnicity: Romani Political Activism in Argentina, Colombia and Spain

Mobilizing Romani Ethnicity: Romani Political Activism in Argentina, Colombia and Spain

Mobilizing Romani Ethnicity: Romani Political Activism in Argentina, Colombia and Spain

Overview

The Roma issue is generally treated as a European matter. Indeed, the Roma are the largest European minority—their presence outside of Europe is a result of various waves of migration over the past four hundred years. Likewise, the stereotypes associated with the Roma—the problematized, stigmatized status of a "Gypsy" as well as the historical and contemporary manifestations of antigypsyism—are also of European origin. This book claims, however, that the perception of Roma being strictly a European issue is flawed, and that re-connecting the Roma issue globally represents an important learning experience and an added value.

The book offers a critical exploration of Romani political activism in Colombia and Argentina, and compares it to that in Spain, narrated from the intimate perspective of Romani actors themselves. By outlining parallel lineages of Romani activism in three countries and on two continents, the author arrives at broad conclusions regarding the nature of ethnic mobilization. Mirga-Kruszelnicka proposes a new synergetic conceptualization of this multidirectional concept as an interplay between political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and frames of identity.

Contributing to the vivid debate about the relationship between the researcher and the researched, the book also includes an original discussion of the positionality of scholars of Romani background.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789633864494
Publisher: Central European University Press
Publication date: 10/15/2022
Series: Critical Romani Studies Book Series
Pages: 316
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Dr. Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka is an anthropologist and a Romani activist. She has conducted extensive research with Romani communities in multiple European and Latin American countries, with a particular focus on Romani political mobilization, ethnopolitics and identity construction. Since 2018, she serves as the deputy director of the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC).  Ethel Brooks is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University (USA) and a Tate-TRAiN Transnational Fellow at the University of the Arts-London, where she was 2011-2012 US-UK Fulbright Distinguished Chair.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Ethel Brooks

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction. Personal Equation: Where did it All Start?

The dilemma

The guiding questions and objectives of the book

Romani voices in academia and the emergence of Romani positionality

Europe vs. Latin America

Structure of the book

Chapter 1. Defining Ethnic Mobilization – A Synergic Approach

Ethnic mobilization – a conceptual puzzle

Defining ethnic mobilization

Understanding Romani ethnic mobilization

Chapter 2. Political Opportunities – Understanding the Broader Context

Setting the scene: Ethnic mobilization in Europe and Latin America

Roma as political subjects

Roma in Europe and Latin America: Comparable cases?

Chapter 3. Romani Ethnic Mobilization in a Comparative Perspective. Looking into the Case Study Countries

Argentina, Colombia and Spain: majority contexts, minority struggles

Reconstructing the genealogy of Romani presence

In search of windows of political opportunity

Anno Domini 2017 – Status of Roma

Chapter 4. Who is Doing the Mobilizing? Anatomy of Romani Ethnic Mobilization through the Prism of the Actors

Anatomy of a movement – birth and growth of Romani actors Argentina

Panorama of Romani mobilizing structures: an overview

Leadership and composition patterns

Multiple voices: Between fragmentation and consolidation

Rationale for ethnic mobilization

Chapter 5. Mobilizing Frames? Identity and Interests Intertwined

Identity and interests – and potential of collective agency

Romani identity frames

Romani frames of collective interest

Mobilizing frames? Frame alignment and frame correspondence vis-à-vis Romani constituency

Chapter 6. Mobilizing Romani Ethnicity for Collective Action

Targets of mobilization – why is this important?

Targeting structures of power – external upward mobilization

Building support and seeking allies – external sideways mobilization

Internal mobilization – community as a resource?

Conclusion

Conclusions. Mobilizing for Change? Limits and Potential of Romani Ethnic Mobilization

Roma issue as a global issue – importance of the trans-continental perspective

Contributions to Romani Studies

Romani agency in the world politics – possibilities and opportunities

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

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