Displacement of European Citizen Roma in Berlin: acts of citizenship and sites of contentious politics

Autor(en)

Ayse Caglar

Abstrakt

Abstract: 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.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Journal

Citizenship Studies

Band

20

Seiten

647-663

Anzahl der Seiten

17

ISSN

1362-1025

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2016.1182678

Publikationsdatum

2016

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504017 Kulturanthropologie, 504021 Migrationsforschung, 504024 Rechtssoziologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Geography, Planning and Development, Political Science and International Relations

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/displacement-of-european-citizen-roma-in-berlin-acts-of-citizenship-and-sites-of-contentious-politics(e130ad3a-d1a3-48d3-9531-2ad7292fca33).html