Identity is the crisis, can’t you see?
People from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritages rarely see themselves represented in public spaces except in terms of ‘hypervisibility’ – a type of visibility in which images ‘of Gypsies’ are very available, so it feels as though we might ‘know them’, but in fact, these images form racialised stereotypes that have little to do with their everyday lives. In this guest blog post, Dr Annabel Tremlett discusses her research into the lived experiences and identities of the marginalised Gypsy, Roma, Traveller, Showman and Boater communities of the UK.
