de.hypothesesIn #Bulgaria, the #Covid19 pandemic became a tool for further subjugation of the #Roma population, portraying them as "virus carriers" and denying them basic rights. This reflects a long-standing history of racialized control, writes Francesco Trupia at #TRAFOBlog 👇
Policing the Roma in the Service of Whiteness. Post-Pandemic Reflections from Bulgaria
By Francesco Trupia. Bulgaria's bio-political population management remains instructive to showcase the embeddedness of the policies of white-enclosing with the diversely universal conditions of discrimination, scapegoating, and racism. Race is undoubtedly central to charting out the genealogical lines of past and present violence against Roma and other minority groups in Bulgaria.