The Romani Atlantic / edited by Martin Fotta, Ann Ostendorf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fotta, Martin, editor.

Ostendorf, Ann, 1976- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanies--Atlantic Ocean Region.

Romanies.

Romanies--America--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 295 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

The Romani Atlantic is the first comprehensive look at Romani experiences in the Atlantic World. Together, the essays detail the Romani people's transatlantic circulations, interactions, connections, and exchanges, reinforcing the view that the Atlantic was a zone of contact where identities interlaced and transformed. The geographical points and flows covered include imperial Spain and Mexico, Lusophone Angolan slave trading ports, Ellis Island immigration controls, South-Eastern European villages, and Canadian community centers. Each case study illustrates the migratory flow and reflow of people, ideas, and processes, showing that Romani people have strategically engaged with state instruments, cultivated Romani distinctiveness, and built resilient communities. The Romani Atlantic traces the underexplored history of Romani migration and highlights the ways that Romani agency has shaped the modern world. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Five Hundred Years of Romani Atlantic History: Flows, Circulations and

Migrations that Made the Modern World / Ann Ostendorf and Martin Fotta

Colonial Flows

Bordering the Empire: Romani Women (Gitanas) and the Inquisition in the Spanish Atlantic / Mariana Sabino-Salazar and Susanna Macías Pascua

Ciganos of the South Atlantic: Romani Penal Convicts in Angola in the Eighteenth Century / Martin Fotta

Familiar Outsiders Abroad: Relational Racialization in the Romani Atlantic World / Ann Ostendorf

Immigration Circulations

Romani Itineraries Across the Atlantic: The Shaping of Expertise in Global Mobility, 1880s-1940s / Adèle Sutre

"Keep out the Unworthy of the Nomadic Type": Roma at the Golden Door during the Early 1900s / Louis Takács

Controlling Pests and Avoiding Vices: Patterns of Antigypsyism in Romani Immigration to the Port of Buenos Aires, 1900-1950 / Rafael Buhigas Jiménez

Acculturation and Identity: Romani Communities in the United States during the Interwar Period / James I. Deutsch

Diasporic Connections

New York Dreaming: American Romani Identity, Migration and Memory / Dalen Wakeley-Smith and Michael Ciuraru

From Diaspora to Transcultural Mobilities: Macedonian Romani Music across the Romani Atlantic / Carol Silverman

"America Cultured Us!" Cosmopolitan American Gitanos / David Lagunas

Canadian Connections: The Romani Atlantic, Romani Mobilities and the Search for a Better Life in North America / Esteban Acuña Cabanzo.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jul 2026).

ISBN:

1-009-70603-9

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access