Centre for Minorities Research Podcast University of St Andrews CMR Podcast

In this episode, Natalie Smith, a PhD candidate in the School of History, examines an anthropological account of the Roma written by the priest Cristfried Ganander in 1780, which marks the earliest study of the Roma people in Sweden. This text explored the history, culture and language of the Romani in Sweden-Finland.

This episode uses Ganander’s text as a case study to explore the relationship between the Swedish state and the Romani population. By analysing its portrayal of the Roma and the way they were contrasted with the Sámi, I seek to unravel the hierarchy of otherness imposed on minority populations by the 18th-century Swedish state.



Biblipgraphy: 

Primary Material 

Grellman, Heinrich Moritz Gotlieb. Dissertation on the Gipsies: being an historical enquiry, concerning the manner of life, family cononomy, customs and conditions of these people in Europe, and their origin, trans. Matthew Raper 1787 [1783]. 

Kongl. Svenska Vitterhets-academiens handlingar, Förste delen p. 5. Stockholm, Lars Salvius, 1775. 

Undated competition entry from Cristfried Ganander to KSWA, Undersökning om de så kallade TATTARE eller Ziguener, Cinqari, Bohemiens, Deras härkomst, lefnadssätt, språk, m. m. Samt om, när och hwarest några satt sig ner i Sverige? Original capitalisation. SE/ATA/ARK2_1-1F2:4 ATA Tävlingsskrifter MM 1779-1782. 

Secondary Material: 

Boatca, Manuela and Parvulescu Anca. “Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania Across Empires” Cornell University Press, 2022.  

Sunderland, Willard. “Taming the Wild Field: Colonisation and Empire on the Russian Steppe” Cornell University Press, 2004. 

Svensson, Birgitta. “Bortom all ära och redlighet : tattarnas spel med rättvisan” Nordiska Museets Förlag, 1993. 

Yuval-Davis, Nira. “Gender and Nation” Sage, 1997.

In this podcast, Yichi and her research interlocutor Shannon Chen-See Nehemiah discuss Shannon’s life experiences growing up as a fourth-generation Chinese Jamaican and an active poet and artist. They ruminate upon the commonality of minority experiences, which relate to being different from others and learning to embrace that difference. Their friendship also blooms through connections with the Chinese identity—a journey of forming relationships by encountering and going beyond people’s sameness and differences. Shannon also reads her poem about the minority experience and discusses its creation.



Visit Shannon’s website, where you can also find the poem read on the episode: https://www.watchensee.xyz/art-poetry

Tilly Lyons, a PhD student in Italian and History, gives a brief overview of the history of Africans in Italy between 1922 and 1945. In this episode, she contextualises the discursive landscape in which they found themselves in a colonial time when anti-Black propaganda was rife and discusses two case studies from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs archives in Rome.



Primary Sources:

‘Anna and Aden Bin Mohamed’, Ministero Africa Italiana vol. I 1857-1939, Posizione 35/9, Archivio Storico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri.

‘Osman Rorá’, Ministero Africa Italiana vol. I 1857-1939, Posizione 35/9, Archivio Storico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri.

Lidio Cipriani, Per un censimento delle genti di colore residenti in Italia, Ministero Africa Italiana Gabinetto Archivio Segreto 1925 – 1942, busta 70, Archivio Storico del Ministero degli Affari Esteri.

Secondary Sources:

Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 2019).

Margherita Sarfatti & Brian Sullivan, My Fault: Mussolini As I Knew Him, Enigma Books, 2013.

Alberto Sbacchi, ‘Italy and the Treatment of the Ethiopian Aristocracy, 1937-1940’, The International Journal of African Historical Studies 10(2) (1977), 209-241.

Parth Pandya, a PhD student in Demography, discusses their first PhD chapter looking at the effects of ethnic concentration on the partnership, employment, and housing patterns of ethnic minorities in the UK with a special focus on the key takeaways on the state of ethnic minority individuals in the Census 2021 results which were recently released. In this episode, Parth breaks down the spatial patterns of ethnic minority individuals in the UK, outlines key theories of ethnic minority behaviour and patterns in demographic and geographic research, discusses their findings and ends on a critical discussion of the methodological challenges in demographic research.



References**These are some key readings to get you going but this is not an exhaustive list and there are many more works that I referenced in my research.

Brynin, M. and Güveli, A., (2012). Understanding the ethnic pay gap in Britain. Work, Employment and Society, 26(4), pp.574-587.

Catney, G., Lloyd, C.D., Ellis, M., Wright, R., Finney, N., Jivraj, S. and Manley, D., (2023). Ethnic diversification and neighbourhood mixing: A rapid response analysis of the 2021 Census of England and Wales. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), pp.63-77.

Finney, N. and Harries, B., (2015). Which ethnic groups are hardest hit by the ‘housing crisis’. Ethnic identity and inequalities in Britain: The dynamics of diversity, pp.141-160.

Hamnett, C. and Butler, T., (2010). The changing ethnic structure of housing tenures in London, 1991—2001. Urban Studies, 47(1), pp.55-74.

Hannemann, T. and Kulu, H., (2015). Union formation and dissolution among immigrants and their descendants in the United Kingdom. Demographic Research, 33, pp.273-312.

Kulu, H., Milewski, N., Hannemann, T., & Mikolai, J. (2019). A decade of life-course research on fertility of immigrants and their descendants in Europe. Demographic Research, 40, 1345–1374.

Li, Y. and Heath, A., (2020). Persisting disadvantages: a study of labour market dynamics of ethnic unemployment and earnings in the UK (2009–2015). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(5), pp.857-878.

Mikolai, J., & Kulu, H. (2022a). Heterogeneity or disadvantage in partnership, childbearing, and employment trajectories of the descendants of immigrants in the United Kingdom? A multi-channel sequence analysis of longitudinal data. MigrantLife Working Paper 12.

Mikolai, J. and Kulu, H. (2022b). Partnership and fertility trajectories of immigrants and descendants in the United Kingdom: A multilevel multistate event history approach. Population Studies, pp. 1–20.

Shankley, W. and Finney, N., (2020). Ethnic minorities and housing in Britain. In Ethnicity, Race and Inequality in the UK, p.149.

Thomas, M.J. and Mulder, C.H., (2016). Partnership patterns and homeownership: a cross-country comparison of Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Housing Studies, 31(8), pp.935-963.

Waters, M., Tran, V., Kasinitz, P. and Mollenkopf, J., (2010). Segmented assimilation revisited: types of acculturation and socioeconomic mobility in young adulthood. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 33(7), pp. 1168-1193.

Zuccotti, C.V. and Platt, L., (2017). Does neighbourhood ethnic concentration in early life affect subsequent labour market outcomes? A study across ethnic groups in England and Wales. Population, Space and Place, 23(6), p.e2041.

Racheal Inegbedion, a graduate from the masters of Science in Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, discusses her policy report dissertation centred in the issue of environmental justice, specifically concerning individuals with disabilities in Nigeria and its broader global implications.

Aimée Capraro, an undergraduate student of German at the University of St Andrews, discusses the place of minority languages in Germany with a special focus on the linguistic varieties spoken by people of Turkish descent in urban areas in Germany and social attitudes towards them. In this episode, she breaks these varieties down from a linguistic standpoint before examining their cultural and political significance.

References:

Tanager, ‘Learning to be German: immigration and language in Berlin’, in The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin, ed. by Theresa Heyd, Ferdinand von Mengden and Britta Schneider (Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2019), pp. 73-93.

Bunk, Oliver and Maria Pohle, ‘ “Unter Freunden redet man anders”: The register awareness of Kiezdeutsch speakers’, in The Sociolinguistic Economy of Berlin, ed. by Theresa Heyd, Ferdinand von Mengden and Britta Schneider (Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter Mouten, 2019), pp. 97-124.

Androutsopoulos, Jannis K, ‘Ethnolekte in der Mediengesellschaft. Stilisierung und Sprachideologie’ in Performance, Fiktion und Metasprachdiskurs, in Standard, Variation und Sprachwandel in germanischen Sprachen (Tübingen: Narr, 2007), pp. 113-155.

Madsen, Lian Malai and Bente Ailin Svendsen, ‘Stylized voices of ethnicity and social division’, in Language, Youth and Identity in the 21st Century. Linguistic Practices across Urban Spaces (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 207-230.

Cindark, Ibrahim and Inken Keim, ‘Deutsch-türkischer Mischcode in einer Migrantinnengruppe: Form von “Jugendsprache” oder soziolektales Charakteristikum?’, in Jugendprachen – Spiegel der Zeit. Internationale Fachkonferenz 2001 an der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal (Frankfurt am Main/Berlin/Bergn/Bruxelles/New York/Oxford/Wien: Lang, 2003), pp. 377-393.

Balci, Tahir, ‘Die Wochenmarktsprache in der Türkei und in Deutschland’, Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 0 (2020), 243-256.