Sammanfattning
This article discusses Swedish Roma policies during the 20th century within
a framework of changing conditions and practices of citizenship. These policies
have departed from and created different categories; excluding ones
such as vagrants, unwanted strangers and beggars, or inclusive ones such
as citizen, refugee or immigrant. Despite such variations, an old yet constantly
reproduced narrative of the Roma as a unique and problematic group
have legitimized all policies. Our focus is the conditions for membership, and
the strategies developed to transform newcomers into productive citizens,
notably during the 1960s and 1970s. The article combines historiographical
perspectives that have been long separated in Romani studies, migration
history and welfare history, with the aim of incorporating Roma history into
these fields