‘Quite simply, this book is extraordinary. The text is coherent, theoretically and analytically rich, and above all, readable. The theoretical grounding for the book is complex, but the author unpacks her main arguments about racial capitalism and surplus populations lucidly and in an understandable manner.’
– Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

‘This book forcefully re-centres race and class in East-Central European and post-socialist scholarship. By bridging Marxian accounts of reserve armies of labour with theories of racial capitalism, Cernušáková provides a crucial lens on contemporary capitalist racialisation and the Roma question.’
– Sara R. Farris, Goldsmiths University of London

Introduction
1 A Roma neighbourhood and the political economy of spatial segregation
2 Stuck in low-paid precarious work
3 Disciplined through unpayable debt
4 The post-socialist state and the racialised surplus population
5 Issues with ethnographic research
Epilogue