Roma and Romá in North-East Italy

Social invisibility and discrimination of Roma people in Italy and Brazil

“…Salvini's Lega Party in Italy) best able to symbolically articulate (and emotionally charge) the 'issue', presenting itself as the best option to solve the 'problem'. Such discourses, however, discriminate and exclude the Roma individual, either through the dissemination of negative stereotypes as intrinsic elements of what it is to be Roma or through the efforts made to maintain the Roma as an undesirable and invisible people in the sphere of public approval (Bigazzi, 2009;Drydakis, 2012;Piasere, 2015;Rizzi, 2021;Sam Nariman et al, 2020;Sigona, 2005;Tileagă, 2006;Villano et al, 2017).…”

“…The existence of strongly negative attitudes, rooted in time, and discrimination by Europeans towards Gypsies is evidenced by several sources. Piasere (2004Piasere ( , 2012Piasere ( , 2015 shows that in Europe, anti-Gypsyism is neither a recent phenomenon, nor is it limited to Italy alone, and psychosocial research conducted in several countries (Bigazzi, 2009;Drydakis, 2012;Kende et al, 2017;Kende et al, 2022;Sam Nariman et al, 2020;Servidio et al, 2020;Tileagă, 2006;Villano et al, 2017) confirm its widespread character. The Roma have been, and still are, a target of prejudice, marginali zation, and social exclusion across Europe, especially in Eastern-Central European countries.…”

“…Trying to synthesize the stereotypical image of Gypsies that emerged in Italian studies over the last thirty years (Berti et al, 2013;Costarelli, 1999;Fontanella et al, 2016;Meneghini, 2017;Piasere, 2012;Villano et al, 2017;Volpato & Durante, 2008), there seem to be two images of Gypsies. One is the Gypsy of whom there is a perception of physical proximity, the recipient of a negative stereotype, widely shared and consolidated, towards whom hostility is not hidden because it is justified by the very behaviour of the outgroup: they are the 'criminal' Gypsies towards whom 'one cannot but feel hatred' and is 'afraid to show hostility'.…”

Adequate for whom? Reflections on the right to adequate housing from fieldwork on Roma inclusion in Italy

“…All authors cited above agree in considering nomad camps as one of the main barriers to inclusion 1 of Roma, not only because of their location, the reduced access to services and the generally poor infrastructuresshelters mostly consist of caravans or makeshift barracksbut especially because of their stigmatisation: nomad camps are indeed associated with dirtiness, deviancy and criminality, reproducing what Sibley (1995) calls a 'geography of exclusion' that prevents its inhabitant from succeeding at school, finding a job and, finally, exiting the camp (Hepworth, 2012;Piasere, 1991) The analysis of this issue gives the opportunity to question a quite widespread and unchallenged normative and policy concept: 'housing adequacy'. Although this term first appeared in 1966 within Art.…”

“Todos somos familia aquí”: Familia, alianza y reproducción etnocultural entre los Calós (Gitanos) de Ciudad de México

“…Partimos de la premisa que en el intercambio -económico, cultural, físico, etcéterase constituye la singularidad de la cultura de los Roma sobre la base de una dialéctica entre (a), un adentro: un sistema Roma, sin hacer referencia a un esencialismo, anticipado por Williams (1984) y Piasere (1985Piasere ( , 2011, sobre la base de que la reproducci ón cultural es social, elástica, fluida y remite a las condiciones históricas; y (b), un afuera: una construcci ón política, antropológica e histórica que existe a través de la puesta en escena y representaci ón de los Roma por medio de dispositivos simb ólicos. Ello revela la importancia de la coyuntura, la cual adquiere la forma de un sistema antropológico modulado y variable en relaci ón con el destino histórico, la situación política y socioecon ómica que cada grupo ocupa en un determinado territorio y la oposición Roma/ Gadjés (Williams 2011, 19;Okely 1983, 35;Piasere 1996, 121).…”