Luis Escobedo

Romania’s immigration debate under neoliberal hegemony: Constructing diligent migrants and individualising Transylvanian Hungarians as racist

In 2020, a group of residents of the rural Transylvanian Hungarian-majority municipality of Ditró (in Hungarian), or Ditrău (in Romanian), mobilised themselves against two Sri Lankan bakers. Mainstream media portrayed the incident as xenophobic and racist, the locals as right-wing extremists, and the Sri Lankans as m...