Home-Land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State
Rachel Humphris
Abstract
In contemporary society, passport checks at nation-state borders are accepted. But what if these checks were happening in our own homes? This book provides an intimate ethnographic study of these governing encounters in the home space for migrants who were identified by local state actors as Romanian Roma. Focusing on how the nation-state is reproduced within the home, the book considers what it is like to have your legal status, your right to ‘belong’, judged from your everyday routines within your own home. It explores how we draw the line around our own private and personal space and what i ... More
Keywords: migration, citizenship, belonging, race, ethnicity, motherhood, state theory, Roma, urban studies
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9781529201925 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2019 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781529201925.001.0001 |
