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Accommodation crisis: the racialization of travellers in twenty-first century England
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume: 42, Issue: 4, Pages: 511 - 530
Swansea University Author:
Steve Garner
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/01419870.2017.1380213
Abstract
Racialization is frequently deployed but seldom defined precisely. The agent(s) and mechanisms of the process are often not analysed. Such processes have multiple agents, mechanisms and rationales, all of which may change over time. The key agents of the racialization of Gypsy/Travellers in England...
| Published in: | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
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| ISSN: | 0141-9870 1466-4356 |
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Informa UK Limited
2019
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64032 |
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Racialization is frequently deployed but seldom defined precisely. The agent(s) and mechanisms of the process are often not analysed. Such processes have multiple agents, mechanisms and rationales, all of which may change over time. The key agents of the racialization of Gypsy/Travellers in England have historically been the State and the media. This article claims that a key mechanism in the racialization of Gypsy-Travellers in the twenty-first century is the English planning system. There has been a long-term racialization of Gypsy-Travellers based around criminality, dirt and various threats to order. Gypsy-Travellers respond to the State’s criminalization of their cultures by both adjusting their degree of mobility, and engaging with the discriminatory planning system to procure more advantageous outcomes. Gypsy-Travellers’ “cultural adaptations” end up further embedding the existing racist frame, in which they unfairly gain advantage over sedentary people by simultaneously infringing rules and claiming they are discriminated against. |
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| Keywords: |
Gypsy-Travellers, racialization, planning, the state, racism, sedentary, mobility |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Issue: |
4 |
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511 |
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530 |