The nomadic scapegoat : the criminalisation and victimisation of gypsies
An ethnographic analysis of the nature, extent and processes of anti-Gypsy discrimination in contemporary Britain is used to test a number of hypotheses: that nomads are at odds with practices of social control and with capitalist spatiality; that there exists a sedentarist bias within the Criminal...
Main Author: | Gordon, Eleanor |
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Bangor University
1998
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Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340953 |
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