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

In: Revue européenne des migrations internationales: REMI, Band 32, Heft 1

Abstract

The article is based on results under development of the research project "Roma Migrants in the Public Arena" (LabEx TEPSIS, Ville de Paris). Drawing on various fieldworks focused on politicization processes (media coverage, collective action, local policies of "inclusion"), it examines in a cross-scalar approach the differentiated integration strategies developed towards these immigrants by a plurality of actors. Through a critical review of the comparative results issued from the fresh release of Confluences Mediterranée journal, we point out some tensions between processes of "transnationalization" and rooted national and local configurations. We thus favour a particular research-path that focuses on entrenchment and mobilities of categorical ethnic ascriptions and identifications.