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GLOBAL NOMADS

Ex. Roma, tuareg - different ways of being nomad
The exotic image of the blue people, finding a space in the global world as a nomad, fighting for the right to move in a wide land.

And roma culture and the provocative case of a people without a native land. Why has that been such a threat?
Paradox: Movement is valued; being a traveller is a status identity. But if you are too mobile and without a recognizable home you become a threat.

Flexible identites…
The identity of the Roma can serve as a model for a modern, European transnational identity that is capable of cultural fusion and adaptation to changing circumstances.
The Roma community knows no territorial boundaries, uniting people of different tongues and religions. Understood this way, Roma identity coincides with Stuart Hall’s cultural identity, which is a “matter of becoming,” or with Homi Bhabha’s description: “restless, uneasy, interstitial hybridity: a radical heterogeneity, discontinuity, the permanent revolution of forms.” (synopsis, 2010-02-24)