Stopping the “Virus of the Gypsy Emptiness”: Racialization of
                              the Bulgarian Roma During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Bulgaria











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            * Camilla Salvatore
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            Stopping the “Virus of the Gypsy Emptiness”: Racialization of the Bulgarian Roma During th

            Pandemic in Bulgaria

            Abstract

            In Bulgaria, such as in many other European countries, the so-called “Gypsy/Roma” are the 
            the rhetoric of extreme right parties who are pointing at them as the main responsible for
            of crisis and fueling hate between groups. With the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic, th

            existing tension between the majority of Bulgarians with non Roma origin and the so-called
            intensified and been fueled by political discourses that urge to “close the ghettos everyw

            Dzhambaski, 18.03.2020) which have been translated into safety measures – such as closure,
            and introduction of a system of control access to the neighborhoods where the “population 
            is supposed to live. By analyzing an official discourse of this kind and comments and reac

            will see how the stereotypes concerning Bulgarian Roma are legitimated by institutional vo
            alimenting antigypsism (Wippermann, 2005; Knudsen, 2005, Nicolae, 2006, Piasere, 2010; 201
            to see these attitude as consisting in a semiotic process of categorization and enregistre

            through which particular features of individuals are identified as typical of the group th
            to belong to.


            Keywords: antigypsism; racialization; enregistrement; categorization; pandemic

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