Displacement of European citizen Roma in Berlin

Acts of Citizenship and Sites of Contentious Politics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7724893
AutoresAyşe Çaglar (0000-0001-7077-0439, Institute for Social Anthropology, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume20
Fascículo5
Páginas647-663
Data de publicação2016-07-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2016.1182678
OpenAlexW2473942610
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências 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