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Wastelands: Recycled Commodities and the Perpetual Displacement of Ashkali and Romani Scavengers

Wastelands: Recycled Commodities and the Perpetual Displacement of Ashkali and Romani Scavengers

Saethre, Eirik

Hardcover

AnthropologyEastern European HistoryImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0520368495
ISBN13: 9780520368491
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Oct 6 2020
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Wastelands is an exploration of trash, the scavengers who collect it, and the precarious communities it sustains. After enduring war and persecution in Kosovo, many Ashkali refugees fled to Belgrade, Serbia, where they were stigmatized as Gypsies, consigned to slums, sidelined from the economy, and subjected to violence. To survive, Ashkali collect the only resource available to them: garbage. Vividly recounting everyday life in an illegal Romani settlement, Eirik Saethre follows Ashkali as they scavenge through dumpsters, build shacks, siphon electricity, negotiate the recycling trade, and migrate between Belgrade, Kosovo, and the European Union. He argues that trash is not just a means of survival: it reinforces the status of Ashkali and Roma as polluted Others, creates indissoluble bonds to transnational capitalism, enfeebles bodies, and establishes a localized sovereignty.

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