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Nation building and the others

I’m on my way to Cyprus where I’m giving a paper at the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration conference (IASFM: www.iasfm.org) . My paper is about RAE in Kosovo, but I’m not going to look into the appaling … Continue reading

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The European Romani movement revisited

Citizenship Studies has just published a thought provoking review essay by Huub van Baar on recent work on the emergence of the Romani movement, the EU and neoliberalism. The essay reviews three recent books on the topic: Romani Politics in Contemporary … Continue reading

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Ancestors

The search for ancestors is a key task of nation-building. To root the present into the past – and the older the better – it is essential to substantiate and embellish any claim over a territory. Thus, it is not surprising that … Continue reading

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