Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe Poverty, Ethnic Mobilization, and the Neo-liberal Order

This book brings to light existing experiences of Romani political participation in both eastern and western Europe, and contributes to a more nuanced empirical and theoretical understanding of the emerging political space that over 8 million Romani citizens occupy within an expanding European Union.

NIDHI TREHAN is Research Fellow in the School of Public Policy and Political Science, University College London, UK. She has worked in the areas of human rights and social policy development, both as a practitioner and an academic, and has published in the areas of human rights, identity politics, NGOs/social movements and migration, with a primary focus on the Romani communities of Europe.

NANDO SIGONA is Researcher at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK. He has worked and published in three main areas: forced migration and EU policy and practice; migrant communities’ claims-making and mobilization; and Romani politics and social exclusion. He is co-founder of OsservAzione, an independent action research group working on Roma rights and anti-racism in Italy- http://www.osservazione.org.