Boundary Practices of Citizenship: Europe’s Roma at the Nexus of Securitization and Citizenship Huub van Baar Draft version Paper presented at the conference “Within and Beyond Citizenship: Lived Experiences of Contemporary Citizenship”, University of Oxford, Oxford (UK), April 11-12, 2013. * This conference paper has been strongly reworked since 2013 and can be considered as the proto-version of two papers (to be) published in 2017, one in the journal Antipode and another one in a volume that has been edited by Roberto Gonzales and Nando Sigona. Please, quote or refer to the final versions of these papers. † Introduction: Toward an Analysis of Boundary Practices of Citizenship In present-day Europe, groups of people with vulnerable citizenship status – most notably migrants, asylum seekers, and minorities such as the homeless, the Roma, and sex-workers – have been increasingly framed in terms of security (Andrijasević 2010; Aradau 2008; * I would like to thank Nando Sigona (then at the University of Oxford; currently at the University of Birmingham) and Roberto Gonzales (University of Chicago) for organizing this event and for inviting me. † The full references of the these papers are: van Baar, Huub (2017) “Evictability and the biopolitical bordering of Europe.” Antipode 49(1): 212-230. van Baar, Huub (2017) “Boundary practices of citizenship: Europe’s Roma at the nexus of securitization and citizenship,” in Roberto G. Gonzales and Nando Sigona (Eds.) Within and Beyond Citizenship: Borders, Membership, Belonging. New York/London: Routledge, forthcoming. Huub van Baar Assistant Professor of Political Theory Justus Liebig University of Giessen Institute of Political Science Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities 35394 Giessen Germany Senior Research Fellow University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) Faculty of Humanities 1012 CX Amsterdam The Netherlands http://www.huubvanbaar.nl