Dr Rachel Humphris from the School of Politics and International Relations is one of the five 2020 Shortlisted Nominees for the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize
Established in honour of the memory of Professor Philip Abrams, the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize recognises the best first and sole-authored book within Sociology. Dr Humphris’s 2019 publication Home-Land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State (Bristol University Press) has been shortlisted for the 2020 Prize.
About Home-Land: Romanian Roma, Domestic Spaces and the State
In contemporary society, passport checks at nation-state borders are accepted. But what if these checks were happening in our own home? This book is the first intimate ethnography of these governing encounters in the home space between Romanian Roma migrants and local frontline workers.
Focusing on how the nation-state is reproduced within the home, the book considers what it is like to have your legal status, your right to ‘belong’, judged from your everyday domestic life. In essence this book is about the divide between state and family, home-land and home and what it means for the new rules of citizenship.