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‘Parity of Participation’ and the Politics of Needs Interpretation: Engagement with Roma Migrants in Manchester

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2017

PIETER COOLS ,
DANIELE VIKTOR LEGGIO ,
YARON MATRAS  and
STIJN OOSTERLYNCK
PIETER COOLS
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Sint-Jacobstraat 2–4, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium email: Pieter.cools@uantwerpen.be
DANIELE VIKTOR LEGGIO
Affiliation:
School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK email: daniele.leggio@manchester.ac.uk
YARON MATRAS
Affiliation:
School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK email: yaron.matras@manchester.ac.uk
STIJN OOSTERLYNCK
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Sint-Jacobstraat 2–4, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium email: stijn.oosterlynck@uantwerpen.be
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Abstract

Service providers in Western welfare states have to engage with an increasingly differentiated citizenry. The arrival of new migrant communities triggers debates, negotiations and struggles over the needs of these communities and how service providers can engage with them. In this paper, we look at these processes of developing local social inclusion policies that target migrant communities through the perspective of Nancy Fraser's ‘politics of need interpretation’. More specifically, we analyse Roma engagement strategies in Manchester. We do so by reconstructing how the presence of Romanian Roma emerged as a public issue leading to various engagement strategies and how different actors competed over the interpretation of the needs of the Roma community and the best ways to respond to them. We use Fraser's notion of ‘parity of participation’ to draw attention to the position of the Roma community itself in the process of interpreting needs.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 359 - 376
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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