Mobilità, circolazione e radicamento: una storia di sedentarizzazione in Borgogna

Abstract

- The paper presents the history of a group of Voyageurs adopting a sedentary lifestyle in Burgundy. It describe this sedentarization process by focusing on the group's special features, namely the paradox of their deep local rootedness (their search for respectability, their self-identification with the local middle class, their economic success) associated with an economic organization implying families' mobility for antiques and bric-a-brac trade.

Austrian “Gypsies” in the Italian archives

“…It is a complex phenomenon that, with the enlargement to the east of the EU, has drawn the attention of many researchers (Stewart 2012;Van Baar 2014). However, if this is today the common perception of European society regarding Sinti and Roma, then ethnographic research highlights the sense of belonging of Romani groups to the territory in which they live (Becchelloni 2009;Oliveira 2012;Tauber 2014;Trevisan 2008), while archival research has allowed us to rebuild their network of relationships in the ancien régime (Aresu 2019;Fassanelli 2011) and during the course of the twentieth century (Illuzzi, 2019: 75-88;Pontrandolfo 2013;Tauber 2014Tauber , 2019.…”