Romani People in Italy

Romani People in Italy offers an in-depth, updated, and detailed analysis of the segregated condition of Romani people in Italy. The different shades of segregation take the form of housing, educational and social isolation.

Romani People in Italy offers an in-depth, updated, and detailed analysis of the segregated condition of Romani people in Italy. The different shades of segregation take the form of housing, educational, and social isolation.

While much of the existing literature focuses on individual case studies, or on historical and documentary analysis, this book combines the two approaches. In the first part of the text, the authors reconstruct a history of the policies of exclusion and segregation aimed at Italian Romanies since the Renaissance. In the second part, the authors draw on an ethnographic work conducted in the cities of Turin and Padua to reconstruct the complex migratory stratification of Italian Romanies and the divisions and conflicts within the different Romani populations.

Finally, this book contributes to the understanding of the reality of Romani camps in terms of a space that produces not only habitus of isolation but also positive forms of resistance to neoliberal logics of individualization. It is suitable for courses in ethnic studies, minority studies, migration studies, urban studies, and Romani studies.

Autorentext

Vincenzo Romania is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Padua, Italy. He has written on migration, identity, and interaction. His recent works include '"Italians locked at home, illegal migrants free to disembark": How populist parties re-contextualized the anti-immigration discourse at the time of COVID-19 pandemic' (2024, with Dario Lucchesi), 'Migratory Stratifications and Social Ageing. Disentangling Change in a Tunisian Community in Italy' (2024, with Andrea Calabretta), 'Interactional Anomie? Imaging Social Distance after COVID-19: A Goffmanian Perspective' (2020), and 'Terrorism as Ritual Process and Cultural Trauma: A Performative Analysis of ISIS's Attacks in Europe' (2017, with Serena Tozzo).

Tommaso Bertazzo is a PhD student in social sciences at the University of Padua, Italy. His main research interests are focused on urban and rural studies, community studies, and Romani studies. He has written on migration and political participation. His recent works include 'Building participation. The participatory dimension in refugees and asylum seekers in Emilia-Romagna' (2022) and 'Participating Migrants' (2021).

Klappentext

Romani People in Italy offers an in-depth, updated, and detailed analysis of the segregated condition of Romani people in Italy. The different shades of segregation take the form of housing, educational and social isolation.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. The Research Framework

2. Policies of Exclusion, Persecution, and Segregation: a Multilevel Historical Analysis

3. Migratory and housing stratification

4. Living in the camps. Roma camps as urban ghettos

5. Going Established

Conclusion