Thesis
Hope, help, duty and disappointment: Romanian mobility and its discontents
- Abstract:
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This thesis sets out to explain a paradox: how is it that Romanian migrants voice a discourse of mutual avoidance and mistrust, when conationals’ help underscores every level of their journeys? The argument proposed here is that, contrary to the dangerous naturalisation of Romanian suspicion under tropes of Balkanism, this sense of disunity is constructed everyday by a neoliberal configuration which transfers social security onto personal connections, but which precisely in doing so comes ...
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+ Anderson, B
Department:
University of Bristol
Role:
Supervisor
+ Dzenovska, D
Department:
University of Oxford
Role:
Supervisor
+ Makovicky, N
Department:
University of Oxford
Role:
Examiner
+ White, A
Department:
University College London
Role:
Examiner
Funding
Economic and Social Research Council
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Deposit date:
- 2019-07-08
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- Copyright holder:
- Vicol, DO
- Copyright date:
- 2019
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