Belonging, mobility, and the socialist policies in Kapisova, Slovakia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F22%3A10447917" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/22:10447917 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=jUzb.iHlw" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=jUzb.iHlw</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/rs.2022.2" target="_blank" >10.3828/rs.2022.2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Belonging, mobility, and the socialist policies in Kapisova, Slovakia
Original language description
The article focuses on the local practice of the central policies of socialist Czechoslovakia that aimed to regulate the movement of the Roma, namely the legal efforts to settle nomadic persons and subsequently the plan of controlled resettlement of the Roma from eastern Slovakia to the Bohemian lands. Although migration was a shared experience of the inhabitants of a historically marginalized region of eastern Slovakia, the mobility of the Roma was securitized and understood in central policies as a qualitatively different movement of the 'Gypsies'. Focusing primarily on life trajectories of the Roma that were all connected to the social space of a particular municipality in north-eastern Slovakia, the study examines the ways in which various aspects of their mobility affected negotiations of their ambivalent position in the local hierarchy of socioeconomic relations. Particularly, it shows that in spite of the realization of these restrictive policies, some Roma were able to maintain not only the continuity of migration as an independent economic strategy, but also the continuity of local belonging, even with the help of other non-Romani actors. This locally focused study contributes to a broader debate about the character of the Roma's agency and their social position in Central and Eastern Europe (see e.g. Marushiakova and Popov 2021). On the one hand it strives to break up with the idea of homogeneity of the Roma experience vis-a-vis the socialist policies, and on the other it builds on the research into the relationship between local belonging and (self-)identification of the Roma.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GX19-26638X" target="_blank" >GX19-26638X: Genocide, Postwar Migration and Social Mobility: Entangled Experiences of Roma and Jews</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Romani Studies
ISSN
1528-0748
e-ISSN
1757-2274
Volume of the periodical
32
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
28
Pages from-to
23-50
UT code for WoS article
000818578600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85134692130