The book explores the notion of Gypsy and Traveller ethnicity and
provides a critique of the conceptual basis of racial and ethnic
categorisation. An analysis of the post-war housing situation is
given in order to illustrate a connection between social and
economic conditions, legislation affecting gypsies and travellers
and the visibility and general consciousness of the gypsy and
traveller population. The originality of the book lies in its
argument that the position of gypsies and travellers largely arises
out of social conditions and interaction rather than political,
biological or ideological determinants. It puts forward the notion
of an ethnic narrative of traveller identity and illustrates how
variations of this have been defensively deployed by some
travellers and elaborated on by theorists. Belton focuses on the
social generation of travellers as a cultural, ethnic and racial
categorization, offering a rational explanation of the development
of an itinerant population that is less ambiguous and more
informative in terms of the social nature of the gypsy and
traveller position than interpretations based on 'blood', 'breed',
'stock', ethnicity or race that dominate the literature.
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