Lane, Pauline and Smith, David (2021) Mid-term review- UK Roma national integration strategy: Roma at the intersection of ethnic-inclusive, post-racial and hyper-ethnic policies. Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 29 (1). pp. 73-83. ISSN 1478-2790
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Abstract
Rather than developing a specific strategy to promote Roma integration, the UK government decided to use mainstream legislation. However, the complex mechanisms of UK policy-making, means that responsibility for integration is defused. Because of the devolved governmental systems and the localisation agenda, Gypsy, Traveller and Roma (GTR) populations often find that they are subject to different forms of inclusion and exclusion depending on their specific geopolitical location. In this paper, the authors suggest that in addition to experiencing the impact of devolution, ‘mainstreaming’ approaches to Roma integration are failing because GTR communities find themselves located at the intersection of three different policy ideologies in the UK: ‘ethnic inclusive policies’ (that seek to promote Roma inclusion), ‘post racial policies’ (that obscure-specific forms of structural inequalities) and ‘hyper-ethnic’ policies, (targeted in a discriminatory manner towards certain communities). With the British about to exit from the European Union, concerns are also being raised about the future of Roma communities and the commitment to their inclusion.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Keywords: | Gypsy, traveller, Roma, UK, ethnic inclusive policy, post-racial policy, hyper-racial policy, Brexit |
Faculty: | Faculty of Health, Education, Medicine & Social Care |
SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic User |
Depositing User: | Symplectic User |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2019 11:10 |
Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2021 16:56 |
URI: | https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/704431 |
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