... discrimination and other rights violations. Roma citizenship deficits are described by reference to three types of citizenship—national, regional, and global. Each citizenship status confers entitlements to a distinct set of rights and benefits—residence permits, rights of free movement, refugee protection...

...Regional and Global Circuits ...

...Histories without Groups<subtitle>Lower-Strata Lives, Enduring Regional Practices, and the Prose of Colonial Nativism</subtitle> This chapter places these subaltern histories in a deeper historical framework, arguing that interracial histories are not transgressive as such, but must...

...Colonial Kinships<subtitle>Regional Histories, Uncustomary Politics, and the Genealogical Imagination</subtitle> This chapter looks at how multiracial people in Nyasaland (contemporary Malawi) became politically active during the 1920s and 1930s, making demands upon the British colonial state...

... a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The result, we believe, is a selective but thorough reference work that documents not only the scholarship on the regional traditions discussed by the contributors to this book but also the extensive body of research devoted to other forms of folk medical belief...