Roma migrant children in Catalonia

Between the Politics of Benevolence and the Normalization of Violence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2147389
AutoresIoana Vrăbiescu (0000-0002-2708-7447, University of Amsterdam, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen40
Número10
Páginas1663-1680
Fecha de publicación2017-08-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2016.1229491
OpenAlexW2521089279
IdiomaIT
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas14

In this article, I engage with the current debate on Roma migrant children. Taking Catalonia as a case study, I tackle the separation of Romani children from their parents and the completion of pay-to-go schemes for marginalized Romanian Roma families. The focus lies within the allegedly humane logic of state institutions and civil-society organizations that reflect structural oppression and unveil everyday racism against Roma as a group. Specifically, I seek to explain the relation between the "voluntary return" practices and programs for child protection. The benevolent practices towards the migrant Roma families are considered to be grounded on child well-being. At the same time, the common and widespread practice of pay-to-go for poor Romani migrants push the families into a vicious circle of forced mobility. Therefore, I employ the theories of humanitarianism, and the critiques on the politics of benevolence, to reveal the institutional racism against the Romani migrants

Criminology · Institutional racism · Normalization (sociology · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Racism · Romanian · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Romani and Gypsy Studies