ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the control policies used to target the non-native, mostly Romanian Roma population in Norway and how these policies bring about undocumented levels of suffering. These policies have the more or less explicit goal of driving these groups out of the country, and investigate the attributes and underlying rationale of this strategy. The Roma have gradually taken a central position in the Norwegian public sphere. First, they have become visible as beggars in city centres. Second, as beggars they have become one of the most hotly debated issues in the press. Funnels are constituted by all the institutions relevant to the control situation, which include the labour market, social services, health care/treatment programmes, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their services and so on. Civil administration may serve as a humanitarian alternative to the direct use of force and penal measures, but it also functions as a 'middle man', creating a distance between policy-makers and political targets.
