This work attempts to counteract the essentialism of originary thinking in the contemporary era
by providing a new reading of a relatively understudied corpus of literature from a
ambivalently stereotyped diasporic group in order to rethink and problematise the concept of
diaspora as a spatial concept. As work situated in the Law-in-Literature movement beyond the
disciplinary boundaries of scholarship this book aims to construct a 'literary jurisprudence'
of diaspora space deconstructing space in order to question what it means to be 'settled' in
literary refractions of the lawscape by drawing on refractions of case law in a corpus of texts
by Romani authors. These texts are used as hermeutic framings to draw unique spatio-temporal
landscapes through which the reader can explore the refractive reflective interpretative
conditions of legality as a crucible in which to theorise law.The radical intent of this work
therefore is to deconstruct jurisprudential spatial orderin order to theorize diaspora space
in the context of the Roma Diaspora. This work will offer readers new possibilities to
re-imagine diaspora through law and literature and provides an innovative critical
interdisciplinary analysis of the shaping of space.
