The Begging Question : Sweden's Social Responses to the Roma Destitute.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (355 pages)
- Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth Series .
- Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth Series .
Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- The Problem: An Introduction -- Part 1. Anxiety: The Universal in the Particular -- 1. Searching for Elucidations -- 2. The Concrete's Historical Layers -- 3. Abjection, or Hell Is Othered People -- 4. Anxiety and Ethics -- 5. Ideology, or Enjoying the National Thing -- Part 2. Hegemony: The Particular in the Universal -- 6. The Swedish Ideology, or Missing Exceptional Equality -- 7. The Tolerant Stance of Inaction, 2010-2015 -- 8. The Borromean Welfare Knot -- 9. The Conjuncture, 2015-2019 -- The Problem: An Epitome -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Erik Hansson examines Swedish society's reactions to the presence of European Union citizens, mainly Romanian and Bulgarian Roma, begging in the 2010s.