Die institutionelle Produktion von „Armutszuwanderern“: Kommunaler Antiziganismus und die Neuerfindung des Jobcenters als wohlfahrtsstaatliche Grenzsicherungsbehörde

Zusammenfassung

This chapter contributes to research on institutional Antigypsyism and (welfare) bordering within the European Union. As previous case studies from different EU member states indicate, institutional Antigypsyism and new, racialised bordering practices have emerged in the context of European integration and EU enlargement, especially in the local and municipal sphere. Following up on these findings, we examined municipal practices, strategies of exclusion and welfare bordering in a large West German city. On the basis of extensive research and fieldwork, we demonstrate how local welfare authorities are being gradually transformed into agencies of EU internal border control. Taking the social welfare authorities of a German city as an example, we examine a process in which welfare provisions have increasingly been withdrawn from a group of people (precarious EU citizens) designated and stigmatised as undeserving and work-shy ‘Roma’.