Roma Workers under Czech Racial Capitalism: A Post-Socialist Case Study
This article contributes to the theory of racial capitalism by focusing on racialization of labor in the post-socialist context. Drawing on fieldwork conducted with Roma workers in the city of Ostrava, the Czech Republic, the paper investigates the role of the Czech state in confining Roma to low-paid, precarious and informal work—and how dynamics of…
Stigma and segregation: Containing the Roma of Údol, Czech Republic
Barbora Černušáková Race & Class, Volume 62, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396820926916 Abstract This article analyses the lived experience of a Czech Roma community in Údol, Ostrava. Based on the author’s participant-observation research, it demonstrates how certain neighbourhoods are increasingly targeted by policy measures which range from the denial of benefits to residents of certain areas to…
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