Country of residence

Canada

Brief introduction

Education

Master of Arts in International Relations, 2012, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Academic profile

Areas and sites of political contention surrounding Roma as EU citizens, and the conflation of discourses of stereotyping ‘gypsy nomadism’ with the right of ‘freedom of movement’ particularly in the case of Roma deportations in 2010 out of France. I have a lot of interest in how Roma and Traveller groups are framed, and the practices of representation being utilized to ‘problematize’ and ‘exceptionalize’ Roma in Europe either through an inclusionary and humanitarian lens, or as an anti-Roma xenophobic narrative. My prospective doctoral research will be concerned with the challenging of refugee claimant laws in Canada through ethnographic research on the daily experiences of Hungarian Roma mobility from Miskolc to Toronto and other Canadian cities. How do the experiences of movement, and types of movement, that Roma migrants encounter unveil larger systemic issues pertaining to exclusionary processes of citizenship discourses, or an economy of deportation?

Publications

Keywords

citizenship theory – political ethnography– deportation theory - cosmopolitical inquiry - refugee claimants - mobility

Contact

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