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Hope, help, duty and disappointment: Romanian mobility and its discontents

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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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University of Oxford
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SSD
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SAME
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University of Bristol
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University of Oxford
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University of Oxford
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University College London
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Economic and Social Research Council More from this funder
Type of award:
DPhil
Level of award:
Doctoral
Awarding institution:
University of Oxford
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English
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2019-07-08

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