Lectio Praecursoria: Social Orders, Tensions and Saviourism: An Ethnography of Finnish Roma Policy Implementation

Authors

• Marko Stenroos University of Helsinki https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3343-8909

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v45i2.103110

Abstract

“Social orders, tensions and saviourism” represents an ethnography on the implementation of Finnish national policy on Roma. It draws upon two and half years of fieldwork working in a Roma project. The name of the study, “Social orders, tensions and saviourism,” reflects the core findings of the study. It argues that the neoliberal policy-making applied to Romani people have an ideological premise that is incongruous with their social realities causing tensions among participants and formulating a form of saviourism.

Keywords: Finnish Roma, participation, development, policy, neoliberalism, power