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Roma street-workers in Uppsala : racialised poverty and super precarious housing conditions in Romania and Sweden
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- Teodorescu, Dominic (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Kulturgeografiska institutionen
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- Molina, Irene, Professor i kulturgeografi, ssk Bosättning och bebyggelse, 1957- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutet för bostads- och urbanforskning (IBF)
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- 2020-12-18
- 2021
- English.
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In: International journal of housing policy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1949-1247 .- 1949-1255. ; 21:3, s. 401-422
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- Using a combination of a political economy approach for the analysis of housing with a postcolonial approach to mobility patterns of the racialised and impoverished Roma in Europe, we reflect on the relationship between racialisation and the precarious living and housing conditions of the Eastern European Roma who move from the poorer to the richer countries of the European Union. Through a qualitative and multi-sited approach to housing, we reveal the situation of permanent displacement for racialised Romanian Roma groups in both Sweden and Romania. We have followed Roma street-workers who come to Sweden for earning income in order to improve their homes in Romania, but once there, they are exposed to homelessness, harsh weather conditions, racism and discrimination. We found that the super precarious conditions of housing in Romania push the migrant Roma into even worse housing and living conditions in the destination country, completing a vicious circle of forced nomadism in which the lack of right to decent housing and permanent risk of displacement are central aspects. This article merges the interests of urban and housing researchers with those from the postcolonial tradition.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Social och ekonomisk geografi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Social and Economic Geography (hsv//eng)
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