Roma and Gypsies in the Mediterranean: Circulating Categories, Maintaining Boundaries

Milena Doytcheva (1)

1 Université de Lille

The article is based on the results under development of the research project "Roma Migrants in the Public Arena" (LabEx TEPSIS, Ville de Paris, 2013-2016). Drawing on various fieldworks focused on politicisation processes (media coverage, collective action, local policies of "inclusion"), it examines the multiscalar formation of differentiated strategies of integration, developed towards these immigrants by a plurality of actors (NGO’s, elected officials, social workers, state and local administration, policy experts). Building on a comparative analysis framework, which focuses on three main countries of immigration, we point out some tensions between processes of “transnationalisation” and rooted national and local configurations. We thus favour a particular path of analysis, which focuses on processes of entrenchment and mobility of categorical ethnic ascriptions and identifications.

Mots clés: Roma; Gypsy; migrations; mobilities; European integration; citizenship; public policy; labelling; categorisation; racism; discrimination; transnationalism

Domaines: Sociologie; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Science politique

Milena Doytcheva. Roma and Gypsies in the Mediterranean: Circulating Categories, Maintaining Boundaries. Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2016, 32 (1), pp.en ligne. ⟨hal-01628149⟩