Recipient of the ASN Harriman Rotschild Book Prize Honorable Mention 2022
'This excellent and engaging text seeks to open up a new discussion about the failure of Roma 'integration' and the persistent violation of Roma rights on the part of nation-states. It adopts an explicit socio-legal perspective and acknowledges the crucial role of widespread anti-Roma racism in maintaining Roma marginality and ensuring their positioning at the 'fringes of citizenship' [...] In doing so it moves us further toward a more reality-congruent orientation in understanding Roma and non-Roma relations.'
Ryan Powell, Housing Studies
'The book is a must-read for scholars, practitioners as well as students dealing with marginalized communities and citizenship studies, as it provides a new and interesting angle and a new perspective in the field of citizenship studies.'
Sophie Schonthaler, European Yearbook of Minority Issues
Introduction: Strangers among citizens
1 Visible minorities, invisible citizens
2 Irregularised citizenship, free movement and territorialities
3 Citizens in the making and the inequality of opportunity: School segregation of Romani children
4 Minority statelessness and racialised citizenship: Total infringement of citizenship
5 Out of ignorance and despair: Sabotage as a citizenship enactment at the fringes
Conclusion: Reflecting on citizenship from the fringe
Index