"No Soft Touch": Romani Migration to the U.K. at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
"No Soft Touch": Romani Migration to the U.K. at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century
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“不温柔对待”：二十世纪之交罗姆人移民到英国
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2003
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W. Guy
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本文探讨了20世纪末罗姆人从中东欧（CEE）向英国的移民情况，特别提及了捷克和斯洛伐克共和国。选择这些案例研究是为了说明更广泛的问题，因为它们有最详尽的记录，尤其是在阐明有关移民动机的社会学研究方面。与向加拿大的类似移民进行比较，进一步阐明了相关情况。来自这些中东欧国家的难民在英国受到了不友好的接待。然而，本文认为，仅仅是大众的无知并不能充分解释这种敌意：相反，对罗姆人寻求庇护者的谴责被视为英国对移民及其潜在后果根深蒂固且长期存在的焦虑的一种表现。尽管罗姆人的数量相对较少，但在这场持续的讨论中，他们却成了方便的主题，在政治敏感度升高的时期被赋予了突出的象征作用。
This paper discusses Romani migration to the U.K. from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the closing years of the twentieth century, with particular reference to the Czech and Slovak Republics. These case studies were chosen to illustrate wider points because they are the best documented, particularly with regard to illuminating sociological research on motivations for migration. Comparisons with similar migration to Canada shed further light on the situation. Refugees from these CEE countries have met a hostile reception in the U.K. It is argued here, however, that popular ignorance alone does not provide a sufficient explanation for this hostility: rather, the condemnation of Romani asylum seekers is seen as an expression of a deep-rooted and long-standing anxiety in the U.K. about immigration and its potential consequences. In spite of their relatively insignificant numbers, Roma have acted as convenient motifs in this ongoing discourse, being assigned a prominent symbolic role at a time of heightened political sensitivity.