Full Description
This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in Eastern Europe, focusing on Romanian Roma, through a comparative historical perspective on its roots and the socio-economic and political mechanisms that have shaped it in labor, housing, and migration.
This interdisciplinary book explores the (re)production of extreme poverty among the Roma across different political economy regimes. Chapters engage in comparative historical analysis across several disciplines and integrate perspectives steeped at the national level of analysis with those dwelling intensively on a single context. Focusing on the processes of manufacturing poverty among Roma in Romania, the chapters cover empirical information about the historical transformations of the economic situation of the Roma in Romania from the 19th century to the present, about global, national, and local processes of industrialization, deindustrialization, and reindustrialization impacting poverty among the Roma in the past seven decades, and about Roma people's current labor positions, housing conditions, and migration practices in distinct geographies from Romania to Norway.
The book situates Roma poverty research in a Central and Eastern European context by highlighting its connections with analytical approaches to poverty and institutional policy visions about poverty eradication. It will be of interest to researchers studying Central and Eastern Europe, political economy of socialism, political economy of capitalist transformations, poverty studies, welfare and housing regimes studies, and labor and migration studies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Contents
Introduction; 1 On the fringes of mainstream: Assessing the extreme poverty of the Roma people in Romania—A historical perspective; 2 Economic dependency, race, and industrial labor shifts in an East European (semi)periphery: The case of the Roma in late socialist Romania; 3 Premature deindustrialization and postsocialist Roma poverty: The political economy of unskilled labor; 4 Roma racialization and housing unevenness in Romania across political economy regimes; 5 The Political (macro) economy of poverty in Romania (1990-2023); 6 The flexibility and mobility of labor, the temporality of industrial life, and the reproduction of poverty under capitalism; 7 Ethnicity matters: Transnational labor migration in a Romanian postsocialist periphery; 8 Migration and street work among marginalized Roma: From livelihood strategies in Romania to political realities in Norway; 9 Poverty and the Roma as a lasting entanglement in Central and Eastern Europe
