The Political Economy of Extreme Poverty in Eastern Europe

A Comparative Historical Perspective of Romanian Roma
Herausgeber: Vincze, Enik&; Friberg, Jon Horgen; Gog, Sorin; Ban, Cornel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in East Europe. It will be of interest to researchers studying Central and Eastern Europe, political economy of socialism, political economy of capitalist transformations, poverty studies, welfare and housing regimes studies, and labor and migration studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781032862545
• ISBN-10: 1032862548
• Artikelnr.: 71236477

Autorenporträt

Enik¿ Vincze is a Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at Babe¿-Bolyai University, Romania. She co-edited Racialized Labour in Romania: Spaces of Marginality at the Periphery of Global Capitalism (2018) and Uneven Real Estate Development in Romania at the Intersection of Deindustrialization and Financialization (Routledge, 2024). Cornel Ban is an Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His book, Ruling Ideas: How Neoliberalism Goes Local (2016) received the British International Studies Association's Political Economy Award for 2017. His research interests are international political economy, sociology of institutions and professions, and comparative political economy. Sorin Gog is a Lecturer at the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babe¿-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He is the author of multiple studies on Roma marginality, capitalist transformations, and neoliberal subjectivities. He is a co-editor of Spirituality, Oganization and Neoliberalism: Understanding Lived Experiences (2020). Jon Horgen Friberg is a Research Professor in Sociology working at the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research in Oslo, Norway. His research interests are related to international migration and immigrant integration, focusing on labor markets, educational systems, social inequality, poverty, and welfare, as well as on issues of identity, religion, and cultural change in multiethnic societies. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, Friberg has an extensive track record of international scientific publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1 On the fringes of mainstream: Assessing the extreme poverty
of the Roma people in Romania-A historical perspective; 2 Economic
dependency, race, and industrial labor shifts in an East European
(semi)periphery: The case of the Roma in late socialist Romania; 3
Premature deindustrialization and postsocialist Roma poverty: The political
economy of unskilled labor; 4 Roma racialization and housing unevenness in
Romania across political economy regimes; 5 The Political (macro) economy
of poverty in Romania (1990-2023); 6 The flexibility and mobility of labor,
the temporality of industrial life, and the reproduction of poverty under
capitalism; 7 Ethnicity matters: Transnational labor migration in a
Romanian postsocialist periphery; 8 Migration and street work among
marginalized Roma: From livelihood strategies in Romania to political
realities in Norway; 9 Poverty and the Roma as a lasting entanglement in
Central and Eastern Europe