Abstract
I contribute to the debate about the persistence of Roma marginalisation in contemporary Europe by analysing the conflict that took place in 2008 in Madrid over the segregation of Gitano (Spanish Roma) children in state schools. Tracing the changing place of Gitanos in the city since the early 1980s, I demonstrate how current practices of educational segregation build on long-term processes of Gitano control and isolation in housing policy and its implementation. I reconstruct the layering of complementary actions and discourses of exclusion which together make the isolation of Gitano children appear commonsensical and necessary.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 446-461 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Social Anthropology |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 18 Nov 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 18 Nov 2016 |
Keywords
- Spain
- Gypsies/Roma
- Education
- The state
- Marginality
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© 2016 European Association of Social Anthropologists. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org10.1111/1469-8676.12333
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Paloma Gay Blasco
- Social Anthropology - Senior Lecturer
- Centre for Cosmopolitan Studies
Person: Academic