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  • 11 - Canadian Connections

  • from Part III - Diasporic Connections
  • Edited by Martin Fotta, Czech Academy of Sciences, Ann Ostendorf, Gonzaga University, Washington
  • Book:
    The Romani Atlantic
    Published online:
    23 July 2026
    Print publication:
    03 September 2026, pp 260-282
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    This chapter looks at Romani migration to the Americas from a Canadian vantage point. It illuminates the continuities of transatlantic mobilities that have been peppered by moments of heightened visibility, a dynamic conditioned primarily by the interactions of kinship networks with the administrative state. One such visible moment was the arrival of Romani asylum seekers from Central and Eastern Europe to Canada in the early 2000s. The chapter places this episode into a wider migration context and, rather than foregrounding the singularity of this moment, it foregrounds the persistence of a Romani presence on the North American continent through less mediated moments. Relying on extensive oral histories and ethnographic fieldwork, it shows that Romani lives and diasporic ties have not only been shaped by Atlantic geopolitics, local realities and the connections between families and individuals, but also by attempts to control their movements seen by some as disorderly and dangerous.