ROMANI ATLANTIC

TRANSCONTINENTAL LOGIC OF ETHNO-RACIAL IDENTITIES

A project that adopts a novel comparative transnational and intercultural perspective in order to examine Romani diaspora and anti-Romani sentiments.

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Presentations 4. 8. 2023 Civic Engagement and (Trans)national Belonging: Romani Atlantic at the CES conference Tina Magazzini presented ongoing research being conducted within the Romani Atlantic project in the 29th International Conference of Europeanist.

Publications 26. 7. 2023 Romani Chronicles of Covid-19: Testimonies of Harm and Resilience Martin Fotta together with Paloma Gay y Blasco (St Andrews) co-edited the most significant chronicle of Romani stories about the COVID crisis ever assembled.

Public outreach 18. 7. 2023 Romani Memory Map for the Americas - Call for Inputs Romani Atlantic project is involved in creating of the Romani Memory Map for the Americas.

Presentations 22. 6. 2023 Racism or xenophobia? Tracing the category-making of racialized minorities across the Atlantic and their consequences On 18-19 May Tina presented at the roundtable conference "The Politicization of Xenophobia in Transatlantic Contexts: Past and Present", in which she looked at what kind of categorizations are employed in 'integration' measures aimed at marginalized communities in Europe, where ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ remain fairly undefined concepts, and racism and xenophobia are used often interchangeably. The links between nationalism and various forms of othering in the Portuguese context is one of the focuses of the research carried out within the Romani Atlantic project.

Publications 2. 3. 2023 Ciganos as a Traditional People: Romanies and the Politics of Recognition in Brazil In this Ethnopolitics article Martin Fotta and Helena Dolabela trace how Romanies became legally and politically recognised in Brazil as a traditional people, and the possibilities and limits this brought.

Presentations 2. 3. 2023 Romanies of the South Atlantic: Cigano (Gypsy) circulation between Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde and Angola (XVII and XVIII c.), Forum Frühe Neuzeit, University of Zurich On 3 April 2023 Martin will present up to date findings on early Romani movement within the Lusophone South-Atlantic.

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