Triggered by Gypsy accounts about a European Union development project designed to create a Gypsy settlement in Parakalamos, a village on the Greek—Albanian border (in north-west Greece), the article draws attention to some of the deceptively brittle ways in which the recent emphasis on ‘recognition’, ‘visibility’ and ‘self-identification’ — in the context of discourses about multiculturalism — cannot be applied to all groups, and, under specific circumstances can lay the grounds for the catachresis (misuse and/or condemnation) of Gypsies’ ‘be-longing’ — its mis-recognition.
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