Current research and book projects
Sub-project Between Minority Protection and Securitization: Roma Minority Formation in Modern European History Keywords (de-)securitization, the development-security nexus, citizenship, precarity, minority formation, racialization, racial capitalism Description This research project analyses, in its first phase (2014-2017) Roma minority formation and transformation since the 1970s, and particularly since the fall of communism, from the angle of the shifting relationship between security, citizenship, and human and minority rights regimes. The project will trace to what extent interacting practices of activism, migration, and security and development experts have impacted on Roma minority formation in a globalising Europe. We particularly focus on the nexus of development, security, and citizenship to investigate the extent to which these interacting everyday practices have contributed to new forms, discourses, and mechanisms of securitization and de-securitization. Running Time first phase: 2014 - 2017 second phase: 2018 - 2021 third phase: 2022 - 2025 Partners The sub-project is carried out in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Regina Kreide, Dr. Ana Ivasiuc (first phase), Dr. Laura Tittel (as doc in the second phase, postdoc in the third phase) and Anna-Sophie Schönfelder (as doc in the third phase) at the University of Giessen in Germany Institutional partners Justus Liebig University Giessen, Philipps University Marburg, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, and the Institute of the Leibniz Association, Germany Funding German Research Foundation (DFG) 
Edited volume, published in August 2018 in the Romani Studies book series of Berghahn Books, Oxford, editors: Ana Ivasiuc and Sam Beck
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Edited volume, published in May 2018 in the Human Rights Interventions series of Palgrave Macmillan; editors: Huub van Baar, Ana Ivasiuc and Regina Kreide Keywords Roma minorities, Europeanization, (de-)securitization, mobility, marketization, development, visuality Description In this edited volume, the fourteen contributors reflect on the situation of the Roma in Europe from the perspective of their securitization, that is their problematization in terms of a "security problem." The volume includes four thematic parts in which the central topic of the book will be addressed in the context of the nexus of security with I. mobility; II. marketization; III. develop-ment; and IV. visuality. The edited volume is the result of a joint book project, launched at the conference The Politics of Security: Understanding and Challenging the Securitization of Europe's Roma, held at the University of Giessen, Germany (1-3 June 2016) and organized by the SFB research group "Between Minority Protection and Securitization" (see the column to the left) Running Time 2016 - 2018 Contributors Jef Huysmans, Nicholas De Genova, Regina Kreide, Marion Lievre, Olivier Legros, Ryan Powell, Huub van Baar, Manuel Mireanu, Annabel Tremlett, Angela Kocze, Ioana Vrabiescu, Ana Ivasiuc, Markus End, Marija Dalbello Institutional partners Justus Liebig University Giessen, Philipps University Marburg, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, and the Institute of the Leibniz Association, Germany Funding German Research Foundation (DFG) |
The Roma and their Struggle for Identity in Contemporary Europe
(book project) Edited volume, published in February 2020 in the Romani Studies book series of Berghahn Books, Oxford; editors: Huub van Baar and Angéla Kóczé Keywords Identify formation and transformation, identity politics, identification, social movements, Roma minorities, activism Description The edited volume is the result of a joint book project, launched at the International Symposium Global Governance, Democracy and Social Justice, 7-8 April 2015 at Duke University (Durham) and Wake Forest University (Winston Salem), North Carolina, USA. Organized by the Council for European Studies (CES) at Duke University, Durham NC, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University, as part of the CES series Reasonable Accommodations: Minorities in Globalized Nation States. Running Time 2015 - 2019 Contributors Malachi Hacohen, Júlia Szalai, Angéla Kózcé, Nidhi Trehan, Huub van Baar, Iulius Rostas, Debra Schultz, Violetta Zentai, Carol Silverman, Tina Magazzini, Tímea Junghaus, Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka, Annabel Tremlett, Delaine le Bas Institutional partners Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University, Winston Salem (NC) and Council for European Studies (CES) at Duke University, Durham (NC) Financial support Duke University Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIG) - Council for European Studies (CES), Duke University |
The Ambiguity of Protection: Spectacular Security and the European Roma (book project)
Monograph, forthcoming in 2022, in the New Directions in Romani Studies book series of Berghahn Books, Oxford Keywords (de-)securitization, race, protection, racialization, spectacles, Europeanization, citizenship, development, precacity, evictability Description Based on several years of fieldwork in different parts of Europe, in this book I analyze the politics of protection regarding Europe’s largest ethnic minority, the Roma, from the perspective of how the global politics of security has been articulated in contemporary Europe. In dialogue with critical security studies, migration studies, citizenship studies and development studies, I examine the European Roma’s situation not merely to take stock of their minority position but, more fundamentally, to reveal and discuss the problematic ways in which citizens in Europe are hierarchically differentiated through security politics and practices, thereby producing unequal access to mobility and citizenship. Running Time 2014 - 2021 Institutional partners Justus Liebig University Giessen; Department of European Studies, and the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam Funding German Research Foundation (DFG) |
