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Chapters 1 and 2 focus on the lived structural constraints within which everyday performances of citizenship are enacted, while Chapter 3 addresses the discursive constraints of policy framings on the performances of citizenship for Roma.

1. ‘We Will Build a Beautiful Future Together’: NGO Historiography, Roma Culture and Monoethnic Nationalism

Focusing on Roma activists’ work at a 2002 Roma fair and cultural festival in Bucharest, the chapter shows that cultural events’ outreach was limited by the Romanian state’s hegemonic constructions of the nation and of citizenship, and as a result these events became venues for the consumption of ethnic artefacts.

2. Living in the Citizenship Gap: Roma and the Permanent State of Emergency in Pod

Chapter 2 is an ethnography of the impoverished urban Roma community of Pod, and focuses on the complete citizenship gap that Roma in Pod experienced. The chapter uses a performance lens to discuss the collective and individual experiences of the citizenship gap in Pod, including discrimination and abuse, and everyday experiences of racism. The chapter demonstrates how the diversity of Pod residents’ cultural practices belie Romanian media’s images of sameness among the Roma and stereotypes that poor Roma, or Ţigani, lacked culture.

3. ‘Too Poor to Have Culture’: The Post-Socialist Politics of Authenticity in Roma NGO Training

Through an ethnographic account and performative analysis of a training workshop for Roma activists, this chapter shows that programmes promoting Roma development in Romania inadvertently reproduce the stereotypical Ţigani and the citizenship gap for Roma. EU-sponsored social programmes for Roma exclude the most impoverished, while claiming to aim to improve the situation of Roma.