Gypsy 'Menace': Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics

by Michael Stewart and Michael Stewart

Book Overview

Across Europe, Roma and Gypsies are suffering increasing intolerance and hostility. A new populist politics, that seeks political meaning in collective experiences and values forms of solidarity rooted in town, class, community or nation, finds in the Roma a suitable target population to which "ordinary citizens'' fears and frustrations can be attached. This politics draws on a rising tide of xenophobia; a feeling of loss of sovereignity and democratic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199327939
• ISBN13: 9780199327935
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.8" x 8.6"