Deporting Europeans

Deporting Europeans: The Racialized Mobility of Romanians in France (Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change)

In Deporting Europeans, Ioana Vrăbiescu examines how states within the European Union (EU) collaborate in the policing and deportation of EU citizens within EU territory. Vrăbiescu argues that the deportation of EU citizens reifies existing inequalities between central states, like France, and peripheral states, like Romania. By highlighting the massive deportation of Romanians from France, Vrăbiescu showcases these inequalities and the intricacies of EU geopolitics.