Jan Grill

Jan Grill is a Simon Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and also affiliated to the Universidad del Valle. He has researched Roma migration from central eastern Europe to Great Britain, and poverty, race, ethnicity and marginalisation in Slovakia and Czech Republic.

Slovakia: when seeing means myopia

Observation is one tool for approaching an understanding of socio-economic marginality – especially in its racialised forms – but mere observation is not enough.

By Jan Grill, Barbora Cernusakova and Daniel Škobla

/ 14 Oct 2016

Britain’s Gypsy moral paranoia

If only the politicians and journalists would try to understand a bit more not only the lives of Roma migrants, but also the poverty conditions and structural inequalities in which so many different groups of people live in Britain today.

By Jan Grill

/ 11 Dec 2013

Britain’s Gypsy moral paranoia

By Jan Grill

/ 11 Dec 2013