Julija Sardelic is a Senior Lecturer in the Political Science and International Relations Programme at Victoria University of Wellington

Recipient of the ASN Harriman Rotschild Book Prize Honorable Mention 2022'This excellent and engaging text seeks to open up a new discussion about the failure of Roma ‘integration’ and the persistent violation of Roma rights on the part of nation-states. It adopts an explicit socio-legal perspective and acknowledges the crucial role of widespread anti-Roma racism in maintaining Roma marginality and ensuring their positioning at the ‘fringes of citizenship’ [...] In doing so it moves us further toward a more reality-congruent orientation in understanding Roma and non-Roma relations.'Ryan Powell, Housing Studies'The book is a must-read for scholars, practitioners as well as students dealing with marginalized communities and citizenship studies, as it provides a new and interesting angle and a new perspective in the field of citizenship studies.'Sophie Schonthaler, European Yearbook of Minority Issues

• Introduction: Strangers among citizens1 Visible minorities, invisible citizens 2 Irregularised citizenship, free movement and territorialities3 Citizens in the making and the inequality of opportunity: School segregation of Romani children4 Minority statelessness and racialised citizenship: Total infringement of citizenship5 Out of ignorance and despair: Sabotage as a citizenship enactment at the fringesConclusion: Reflecting on citizenship from the fringeIndex

Julija Sardelic is a Senior Lecturer in the Political Science and International Relations Programme at Victoria University of Wellington

Recipient of the ASN Harriman Rotschild Book Prize Honorable Mention 2022'This excellent and engaging text seeks to open up a new discussion about the failure of Roma ‘integration’ and the persistent violation of Roma rights on the part of nation-states. It adopts an explicit socio-legal perspective and acknowledges the crucial role of widespread anti-Roma racism in maintaining Roma marginality and ensuring their positioning at the ‘fringes of citizenship’ [...] In doing so it moves us further toward a more reality-congruent orientation in understanding Roma and non-Roma relations.'Ryan Powell, Housing Studies'The book is a must-read for scholars, practitioners as well as students dealing with marginalized communities and citizenship studies, as it provides a new and interesting angle and a new perspective in the field of citizenship studies.'Sophie Schonthaler, European Yearbook of Minority Issues

• Introduction: Strangers among citizens1 Visible minorities, invisible citizens 2 Irregularised citizenship, free movement and territorialities3 Citizens in the making and the inequality of opportunity: School segregation of Romani children4 Minority statelessness and racialised citizenship: Total infringement of citizenship5 Out of ignorance and despair: Sabotage as a citizenship enactment at the fringesConclusion: Reflecting on citizenship from the fringeIndex

Julija Sardelic is a Senior Lecturer in the Political Science and International Relations Programme at Victoria University of Wellington

Recipient of the ASN Harriman Rotschild Book Prize Honorable Mention 2022'This excellent and engaging text seeks to open up a new discussion about the failure of Roma ‘integration’ and the persistent violation of Roma rights on the part of nation-states. It adopts an explicit socio-legal perspective and acknowledges the crucial role of widespread anti-Roma racism in maintaining Roma marginality and ensuring their positioning at the ‘fringes of citizenship’ [...] In doing so it moves us further toward a more reality-congruent orientation in understanding Roma and non-Roma relations.'Ryan Powell, Housing Studies'The book is a must-read for scholars, practitioners as well as students dealing with marginalized communities and citizenship studies, as it provides a new and interesting angle and a new perspective in the field of citizenship studies.'Sophie Schonthaler, European Yearbook of Minority Issues

• Introduction: Strangers among citizens1 Visible minorities, invisible citizens 2 Irregularised citizenship, free movement and territorialities3 Citizens in the making and the inequality of opportunity: School segregation of Romani children4 Minority statelessness and racialised citizenship: Total infringement of citizenship5 Out of ignorance and despair: Sabotage as a citizenship enactment at the fringesConclusion: Reflecting on citizenship from the fringeIndex