Patchwork Economies in Europe: Economic Strategies Among Homeless Romanian Roma in Copenhagen
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Patchwork Economies in Europe : Economic Strategies Among Homeless Romanian Roma in Copenhagen. / Ravnbøl, Camilla Ida.
Constructing Roma Migrants: European Narratives and Local Governance. red. / Tina Magazzini; Stefano Piemontese. Cham : Springer VS, 2019. s. 209-226 (IMISCOE Research).Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Patchwork Economies in Europe
T2 - Economic Strategies Among Homeless Romanian Roma in Copenhagen
AU - Ravnbøl, Camilla Ida
PY - 2019/2/23
Y1 - 2019/2/23
N2 - This chapter investigates the economic strategies of a group of Romanian Roma, who live in homelessness in Copenhagen. It draws on 13 months of anthropological fieldwork with Roma women and men who migrate continuously between Denmark and Romania and who mainly make a living by collecting refundable bottles and cans in Copenhagen. They refer to themselves as badocari, which translates to “bot-tle people” in Romanian. The chapter proposes the concept of “patchwork econ-omy” to frame the micro economic strategies that the badocari engage in. The analogy of patchwork crafting serves to illustrate how the households’ economies rest upon a constant “stitching together” of various unreliable income sources that are scrap based and have no interconnection but due to their unreliability and minor revenue cannot stand alone to support the family. Furthermore, it illustrates how debt constitutes the background quilt against which the patchwork economy is con-tinuously reconfigured. Finally, the chapter presents analytical insight into the inter-connectedness between the micro economy of the Roma household and the broader social and political context of Romania and argues that the former should be regarded as a direct response to the latter.
AB - This chapter investigates the economic strategies of a group of Romanian Roma, who live in homelessness in Copenhagen. It draws on 13 months of anthropological fieldwork with Roma women and men who migrate continuously between Denmark and Romania and who mainly make a living by collecting refundable bottles and cans in Copenhagen. They refer to themselves as badocari, which translates to “bot-tle people” in Romanian. The chapter proposes the concept of “patchwork econ-omy” to frame the micro economic strategies that the badocari engage in. The analogy of patchwork crafting serves to illustrate how the households’ economies rest upon a constant “stitching together” of various unreliable income sources that are scrap based and have no interconnection but due to their unreliability and minor revenue cannot stand alone to support the family. Furthermore, it illustrates how debt constitutes the background quilt against which the patchwork economy is con-tinuously reconfigured. Finally, the chapter presents analytical insight into the inter-connectedness between the micro economy of the Roma household and the broader social and political context of Romania and argues that the former should be regarded as a direct response to the latter.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Roma
KW - Economy
KW - EU migration
UR - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-11373-5_12.pdf
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-030-11372-8
T3 - IMISCOE Research
SP - 209
EP - 226
BT - Constructing Roma Migrants
A2 - Magazzini, Tina
A2 - Piemontese, Stefano
PB - Springer VS
CY - Cham
ER -
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