Accommodation crisis: the racialization of travellers in twenty-first century England

Garner, Steve ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1047-6080 2019. Accommodation crisis: the racialization of travellers in twenty-first century England. Ethnic and Racial Studies 42 (4) , pp. 511-530. 10.1080/01419870.2017.1380213

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Abstract

Racialization is frequently deployed but seldom defined precisely. The agent(s) and mechanisms of the process are often not analysed. Such processes have multiple agents, mechanisms and rationales, all of which may change over time. The key agents of the racialization of Gypsy/Travellers in England have historically been the State and the media. This article claims that a key mechanism in the racialization of Gypsy-Travellers in the twenty-first century is the English planning system. There has been a long-term racialization of Gypsy-Travellers based around criminality, dirt and various threats to order. Gypsy-Travellers respond to the State’s criminalization of their cultures by both adjusting their degree of mobility, and engaging with the discriminatory planning system to procure more advantageous outcomes. Gypsy-Travellers’ “cultural adaptations” end up further embedding the existing racist frame, in which they unfairly gain advantage over sedentary people by simultaneously infringing rules and claiming they are discriminated against.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN:	0141-9870
Date of Acceptance:	7 August 2017
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2022 13:49
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/120873

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