Abstract
Asylum-seeking and significant out-migration have been the response of many Roma communities who continue to face multiple insecurities in their everyday lives, leaving them to their own survival devices. This work seeks to understand how we approach and categorize realities of such internal and cross-border displacements of Roma in current day Hungary. Drawing from an interdisciplinary field of mobilities and borders scholarship, this paper advances the concept of border regimes to approach intersecting regimes of movement control and the dynamics of mobility and enclosure at local and transnational levels. This lens is translated in the case of protracted Roma family evictions, and their struggles with an externalized border regime in the city of Miskolc, Hungary. Fieldwork accounts and snapshots, deriving from on-going ethnographic research in the city’s ‘Numbered Streets’, Roma-populated, residential neighborhood will provide the premises for empirical investigation.
Highlights
His sister, pointing at the fading jet stream running perpendicular to the first one, said ‘That one is going to Budapest!’
This paper has examined the extension and segmentation of border regimes through processes of mobility and enclosure with an emphasis on how these regimes have very immediate effects on how individuals are capable of navigating encountered migration uncertainties
What I have proposed in this article is to think about how the protracted eviction process and the additions made to Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) interdiction mechanisms, produce experiences that situate these particular Roma inhabitants at the interstices of mobility and enclosure dynamics
Summary
His sister, pointing at the fading jet stream running perpendicular to the first one, said ‘That one is going to Budapest!’. Chu (2011) calls the ‘location of dispersion’ as starting point and field site for multiple mobilities, and forms of emplacement and displacement, that mark the intersections for regimes of border control Such a concept disrupts the typical migration spatial analytic that bisects migratory journeys between an ‘origin’ and a ‘destination’, and rethinks the idea of permanent settlement in the process of cross-border movement. The paper will begin with a literature review of current work on Roma migration and mobility, with a focus on what is occluded in research that affords primacy to network and security objects of analyses for explaining Roma migration and mobility To complement these works, I introduce the dynamics of mobility and enclosure applied through the case of the ‘Numbered Streets’ residential settlement in the city of Miskolc, Hungary. The concluding section will synthesize the various analyses teased out of the application of the concept, as well as turn to the prospect of refinement of this research agenda for furthering empirical work
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