Displacement of European citizen Roma in Berlin

Acts of Citizenship and Sites of Contentious Politics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7724893
AutoresAyşe Çaglar (0000-0001-7077-0439, Institute for Social Anthropology, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen20
Número5
Páginas647-663
Fecha de publicación2016-07-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2016.1182678
OpenAlexW2473942610
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas12

This article reflects on the tensions and anomalies of European citizenship from the perspective of European Union (EU)-citizen Roma, people who have an ambiguous positioning within the EU space because they are both European citizens, but also located as 'in but not of the EU space.' On the basis of events, discourses and negotiations surrounding the displacement of EU-citizen Roma in Berlin in 2009, this article explores how the borders of European citizenship are policed. The paper examines how the flattening of the inner EU political space is achieved through a set of semantic tactics, as well as extra-legal means, and how the desire of EU-citizen Roma to become asylum seekers becomes an act of citizenship constituting them as claimants of rights beyond their legal status and thus a threat to the social and political space of the EU. The article draws attention to the mutual constitution of sites and acts of citizenship

Citizenship · European union · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Romani and Gypsy Studies · Turkey's Politics and Society