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The politics of legal technicalities: an inquiry into the demolition of a Roma EU-migrant settlement in Malmö, Sweden
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Urban Studies (US).
2017 (English)In: Contested Property Claims: What Disagreement Tells Us About Ownership / [ed] Maja Hojer Bruun, Patrick Joseph Cockburn, Bjarke Skærlund Risager, Mikkel Thorup, Routledge, 2017Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Social conflicts related to Roma – Europe’s most persecuted people – are often mired in discourses of sanitation and framed around garbage, odour, and smoke. What happens when such elements are translated into objects of legal governance? This chapter explores the legal process that led to the expulsion of about two hundred Roma from a squatter settlement in Malmö, Sweden. Highlighting the role of legal tech- nicalities, it suggests that the process hinged on the categorisation of the settlement as trash and on the power of the municipal authorities to supersede private property rights in order to enforce standards of health and sanitation.

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Routledge, 2017.
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Social Justice
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Roma EU-citizens, Politics of legal technicalities, Property, Nuisance, Spatial governance
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Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-9141DOI: 10.4324/9780203712153-4Local ID: 24104ISBN: 9781138550896 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-9141DiVA, id: diva2:1406173
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2024-06-11Bibliographically approved

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