Chapter 4 ‘Endured Labour’ and ‘Fixing Up’ Money The Economic Strategies of Roma Migrants in Slovakia and the UK

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgements viii
5. Introduction: Gypsy Economy 1
6. Chapter 1 Usury among the Slovak Roma: Notes on Relations between Lenders and Borrowers in a Segregated Taboris 31
7. Chapter 2 New Redistributors in Times of Insecurity: Different Types of Informal Lending in Hungary 49
8. Chapter 3 A Way of Life Flowing in the Interstices: Cigano Horse Dealers in Alentejo, Portugal 68
9. Chapter 4 ‘Endured Labour’ and ‘Fixing Up’ Money The Economic Strategies of Roma Migrants in Slovakia and the UK 88
10. Chapter 5 ‘I Go for Iron’ Xoraxané Romá Collecting Scrap Metal in Rome 107
11. Chapter 6 ‘I’m Good but also Mad’ The Street Economy in a Poor Neighbourhood of Bucharest 127
12. Chapter 7 The Mechanisms of Independence: Economic Ethics and the Domestic Mode of Production among Gabori Roma in Transylvania 145
13. Chapter 8 Deceit and Efficacy: Fortune Telling among the Calon Gypsies in São Paulo, Brazil 163
14. Chapter 9 Houses under Construction: Conspicuous Consumption and the Values of Youth among Romanian Cortorari Gypsies 181
15. Chapter 10 Exchange, Shame and Strength among Calon of Bahia: A Values-based Analysis 201
16. Chapter 11 ‘Give and Don’t Keep Anything!’ Wealth, Hierarchy and Identity among the Gypsies of Two Small Towns in Andalusia, Spain 221
17. Afterword 240
18. Index 251