Ioana Vrăbiescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 638691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ioana Vrăbiescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ioana |
| FAMILY NAME | Vrăbiescu |
| SIGNATURE | VRĂBIESCU I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2708-7447 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Panopticon citizenship
Eritrean Refugees in the Digital Netherlands
While the use of digital technologies has been associated with refugees’ successful integration, this perspective overlooks the digital divide growing on the existing structural inequalities. For Eritrean refugees living in the Netherlands, the digital divide cuts deep into their personal lives and endangers their relation to authorities. Based on two months of ethnographic research and five continuous months of digital participant observation (f…
Chronic peripheralization through urban (re)development in Bucharest
European funds for urban development often turn into neighborhood surveillance and policing people in vulnerable situations, contributing to the racialized production of space in Bucharest. This article examines the intersection of urban regeneration programs (URPs) and post-socialist public-private dynamics, revealing how URPs preserve spatial injustice in marginalized urban areas. Tackling the case study of the Plumbuita neighborhood in Buchare…
‘Detention is morally exhausting’
that is manifest in the organization of migrants' detention
Affective control
Current outcomes of immigration enforcement policies and apparatuses call for rethinking the ethics behind our understanding of community belonging, human rights and just society. The ethics at work are often presented as emotions creating particular affective atmosphere that permit the ongoing implementation of enforcing migration. This Special Issue tackles emotions as processes of organizing that are mobilized in support of certain ethics. In …
Deportation, smart borders and mobile citizens
Taking the case of Romanian citizens in France, this article documents and analyses the digital methods and traditional police activities used for the deportation of EU citizens across the Schengen border and within EU territory. EU laws and Schengen regulations support states’ implementation of high-tech methods in migration governance and police work. Our fieldwork, conducted with several police units in France and Romania, indicates a gap betw…
Embodying the nation, representing the state
The French police and Romanian forces seek to identify, surveil and control Romanian citizens who are suspected to be ‘irregular migrants’ or ‘criminals’ in France. The two states sealed a bilateral agreement to deploy Romanian police forces on French territory: twice a year Romanian uniformed officers patrol next to the French police, whereas liaison officers work throughout the year in several French police units. Policing its own citizens on a…
The state riddle
Two individual member states – France and Romania – collaborate to identify, arrest, detain and deport thousands of EU citizens within EU territory. While France operates a complex and massive deportation apparatus, the Romanian state has openly conceded to receive its deported citizens and to assist the French authorities in policing irregularised Romanian citizens, mainly of Roma ethnicity. Based on multi‐sited research conducted in Romania and…
Creating solidarity
This article tackles ethical and political dimensions of emotions while exploring forms of solidarity among women exposed to gender violence. Taking the case of a multi-ethnic neighbourhood in the border city of Giurgiu, Romania, the author investigates the role of shame, guilt and security in decisions about managing the experience of abuse in intimate partner violence. In the local community, institutional and personal interactions are shaped b…
Care-full failure
In Spain, the national and local authorities boast in recent years about their progressive programs for the integration of Roma migrants from Romania. Many state efforts to work with Roma on their integration are specifically directed at women. Economic integration into the waged labor market is considered a major goal as it, supposedly, leads to the empowerment of Roma migrant women while also securing decent standards of living for entire famil…
Non- and dedocumenting citizens in Romania
This article explores state practices in Romania that lead to the non-, de-, and redocumenting of tens of thousands of inhabitants. Unlike state practices of (non)recording aliens (asylum seekers, refugees, undocumented migrants), the scale of dedocumenting native citizens in Romania exposes a deliberate and systematic modality of governance through exclusion from state records. These practices of citizenship dispossession lead mostly to the gend…
Roma migrant children in Catalonia
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. Specifi…
Care-full failure
In Spain, the national and local authorities boast in recent years about their progressive programs for the integration of Roma migrants from Romania. Many state efforts to work with Roma on their integration are specifically directed at women. Economic integration into the waged labor market is considered a major goal as it, supposedly, leads to the empowerment of Roma migrant women while also securing decent standards of living for entire famil…
Deportation, smart borders and mobile citizens
Taking the case of Romanian citizens in France, this article documents and analyses the digital methods and traditional police activities used for the deportation of EU citizens across the Schengen border and within EU territory. EU laws and Schengen regulations support states’ implementation of high-tech methods in migration governance and police work. Our fieldwork, conducted with several police units in France and Romania, indicates a gap betw…
Roma migrant children in Catalonia
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. Specifi…
Non- and dedocumenting citizens in Romania
This article explores state practices in Romania that lead to the non-, de-, and redocumenting of tens of thousands of inhabitants. Unlike state practices of (non)recording aliens (asylum seekers, refugees, undocumented migrants), the scale of dedocumenting native citizens in Romania exposes a deliberate and systematic modality of governance through exclusion from state records. These practices of citizenship dispossession lead mostly to the gend…
Affective control
Current outcomes of immigration enforcement policies and apparatuses call for rethinking the ethics behind our understanding of community belonging, human rights and just society. The ethics at work are often presented as emotions creating particular affective atmosphere that permit the ongoing implementation of enforcing migration. This Special Issue tackles emotions as processes of organizing that are mobilized in support of certain ethics. In …
Embodying the nation, representing the state
The French police and Romanian forces seek to identify, surveil and control Romanian citizens who are suspected to be ‘irregular migrants’ or ‘criminals’ in France. The two states sealed a bilateral agreement to deploy Romanian police forces on French territory: twice a year Romanian uniformed officers patrol next to the French police, whereas liaison officers work throughout the year in several French police units. Policing its own citizens on a…
Creating solidarity
This article tackles ethical and political dimensions of emotions while exploring forms of solidarity among women exposed to gender violence. Taking the case of a multi-ethnic neighbourhood in the border city of Giurgiu, Romania, the author investigates the role of shame, guilt and security in decisions about managing the experience of abuse in intimate partner violence. In the local community, institutional and personal interactions are shaped b…
Non- and dedocumenting citizens in Romania
This article explores state practices in Romania that lead to the non-, de-, and redocumenting of tens of thousands of inhabitants. Unlike state practices of (non)recording aliens (asylum seekers, refugees, undocumented migrants), the scale of dedocumenting native citizens in Romania exposes a deliberate and systematic modality of governance through exclusion from state records. These practices of citizenship dispossession lead mostly to the gend…
Roma migrant children in Catalonia
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. Specifi…
Creating solidarity
This article tackles ethical and political dimensions of emotions while exploring forms of solidarity among women exposed to gender violence. Taking the case of a multi-ethnic neighbourhood in the border city of Giurgiu, Romania, the author investigates the role of shame, guilt and security in decisions about managing the experience of abuse in intimate partner violence. In the local community, institutional and personal interactions are shaped b…
Care-full failure
In Spain, the national and local authorities boast in recent years about their progressive programs for the integration of Roma migrants from Romania. Many state efforts to work with Roma on their integration are specifically directed at women. Economic integration into the waged labor market is considered a major goal as it, supposedly, leads to the empowerment of Roma migrant women while also securing decent standards of living for entire famil…
The state riddle
Two individual member states – France and Romania – collaborate to identify, arrest, detain and deport thousands of EU citizens within EU territory. While France operates a complex and massive deportation apparatus, the Romanian state has openly conceded to receive its deported citizens and to assist the French authorities in policing irregularised Romanian citizens, mainly of Roma ethnicity. Based on multi‐sited research conducted in Romania and…
Embodying the nation, representing the state
The French police and Romanian forces seek to identify, surveil and control Romanian citizens who are suspected to be ‘irregular migrants’ or ‘criminals’ in France. The two states sealed a bilateral agreement to deploy Romanian police forces on French territory: twice a year Romanian uniformed officers patrol next to the French police, whereas liaison officers work throughout the year in several French police units. Policing its own citizens on a…
Deportation, smart borders and mobile citizens
Taking the case of Romanian citizens in France, this article documents and analyses the digital methods and traditional police activities used for the deportation of EU citizens across the Schengen border and within EU territory. EU laws and Schengen regulations support states’ implementation of high-tech methods in migration governance and police work. Our fieldwork, conducted with several police units in France and Romania, indicates a gap betw…
‘Detention is morally exhausting’
that is manifest in the organization of migrants' detention
Affective control
Current outcomes of immigration enforcement policies and apparatuses call for rethinking the ethics behind our understanding of community belonging, human rights and just society. The ethics at work are often presented as emotions creating particular affective atmosphere that permit the ongoing implementation of enforcing migration. This Special Issue tackles emotions as processes of organizing that are mobilized in support of certain ethics. In …
Eritrean Refugees in the Digital Netherlands
While the use of digital technologies has been associated with refugees’ successful integration, this perspective overlooks the digital divide growing on the existing structural inequalities. For Eritrean refugees living in the Netherlands, the digital divide cuts deep into their personal lives and endangers their relation to authorities. Based on two months of ethnographic research and five continuous months of digital participant observation (f…
Chronic peripheralization through urban (re)development in Bucharest
European funds for urban development often turn into neighborhood surveillance and policing people in vulnerable situations, contributing to the racialized production of space in Bucharest. This article examines the intersection of urban regeneration programs (URPs) and post-socialist public-private dynamics, revealing how URPs preserve spatial injustice in marginalized urban areas. Tackling the case study of the Plumbuita neighborhood in Buchare…
Panopticon citizenship
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Migration, Identity, and Health (4 works)