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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Emerging Inequalities in Europe: Poverty and Transnational Migration
- Chapter 2 Capital, Family or Community in Postsocialist Rural Romania: Inequalities and Equalities
- Chapter 3 International Labour Migration, Remittances and Economic Development in Moldova
- Chapter 4 From Street Busking in Switzerland to Meat Factories in the UK: A Comparative Study of Two Roma Migration Networks from Slovakia
- Chapter 5 Transnational Migration of Bulgarian Roma
- Chapter 6 The End of Politics in Romania's Jiu Valley: Global Normalisation and the Reproduction of Inequality
- Chapter 7 Assistance Migrants in Russia: Upsetting the Hierarchies of Transitional Development
- Chapter 8 Contemporary Contexts of European Migration: Concluding Thoughts
- List of Contributors
- Index
Chapter 4 - From Street Busking in Switzerland to Meat Factories in the UK: A Comparative Study of Two Roma Migration Networks from Slovakia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Emerging Inequalities in Europe: Poverty and Transnational Migration
- Chapter 2 Capital, Family or Community in Postsocialist Rural Romania: Inequalities and Equalities
- Chapter 3 International Labour Migration, Remittances and Economic Development in Moldova
- Chapter 4 From Street Busking in Switzerland to Meat Factories in the UK: A Comparative Study of Two Roma Migration Networks from Slovakia
- Chapter 5 Transnational Migration of Bulgarian Roma
- Chapter 6 The End of Politics in Romania's Jiu Valley: Global Normalisation and the Reproduction of Inequality
- Chapter 7 Assistance Migrants in Russia: Upsetting the Hierarchies of Transitional Development
- Chapter 8 Contemporary Contexts of European Migration: Concluding Thoughts
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
I was accompanying Gergo and Istvan for the first time on their evening busking in the centre of Geneva. They explained that they usually go about in pairs, sometimes both playing, sometimes one playing and the other interacting with people and begging for money. Gergo had a shabby accordion across his shoulders. During the entire evening, I observed the same scenario in every restaurant we visited. Gergo stood aside and played a song in front of the restaurant guests, while Istvan moved from table to table with an empty hat in his hand respectfully repeating several words like ‘bon jour, merci’, ‘ca va?’. He was slightly bowing his back in a symbolic sign of humility and in the hope of arousing compassion. The repeated body posture, consisting of a slight bowing of back and head with a piteous expression in his charcoal dark sad eyes, belonged to the strategic armoury of migrants.
Edited fieldnotes, Gergo and Istvan, June 2005, Geneva, SwitzerlandAnd then on Monday I went ‘packing’ for the first time. So that's how we stayed there [in Leeds] to work. In 2005, as it was, it was still not good. But in 2006 we'd picked ourselves up. We'd got money. We were fi ne. We saved money, came home. First we bought a car and then a house. We bought both in one year. We were doing really great [that year].
Monika, June 2007 On holiday from the UK in her home village in Slovakia- Type
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- Global Connections and Emerging Inequalities in EuropePerspectives on Poverty and Transnational Migration, pp. 79 - 102Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2011
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