Gypsies and Other Itinerant Groups

A Socio-Historical Approach

Leo Lucassen author Wim Willems author Anne-Marie Cottaar author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:11th Mar '98

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In this volume the authors present an alternative approach to the history of gypsies and travelling groups in western Europe. By focusing on processes of social construction, stigmatization and categorization, they offer new insights into the development of government policies towards itinerants in general and the ethnicization of some of these groups in particular. They analyze the western images and representations of gypsies and other itinerant groups, at the same time focusing on their functions for the labour market. By doing so, they add a new chapter to the field of social history.

'Collections of essays often too broadly or too narrowly circumscribe their topic to be useful for comparative purposes, but this collection works well.' - British Bulletin of Publications

ISBN: 9780333682418

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 450g

226 pages