Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Who’s who viii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Series Preface xv
7. Romanian Roma, motherhood and the home 1
8. Home truths: fieldwork, writing and anthropology’s ‘home encounter’ 19
9. Shifting faces of the state: austerity, post-welfare and frontline work 41
10. Romanian Roma mothers: labelling and negotiating stigma 73
11. Intimate bureaucracy and home encounters 101
12. Gender and intimate state encounters 135
13. Borders and intimate state encounters 163
14. Homemade state: intimate state encounters at the margins 191
15. Notes 203
16. References 211
17. Index 231