The Rise of Italy’s Neo-Ghettos

Marinaro, Isabella Clough

doi:10.1177/0096144214566958

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“…What one discards in the age of planned obsolescence becomes waste (immondizia) and should remain so: rescuing anything from this category, then, becomes theft and constitutes a boundary transgression. This ambivalent framing confirms the social constructedness of waste and the ideologies at play in the negotiation of social inequality in Rome (Clough Marinaro 2018). Under this vacillation between waste and property lies an ideolo-gy in which consumption and disposal are inseparable.…”

Section: Rooting Through Dumpsterssupporting

confidence: 55%

Threatening the Social Order

Ivasiuc

2020

JEA

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One of the most productive loci for the analysis of the security – morality nexus is the making of security laws and norms which reveals the ways in which the social order is perceived to be under threat. This article argues for a critical examination of the moralities underlying the security paradigm, or else ‘the securitarian moral assemblage’, through the example of how the Roma are targeted by security laws, decrees, and measures in Rome. Moral values underpinning the social order become particularly visible in security laws, as these laws betray that which requires enhanced protection, and what is seen to produce the existential danger that jeopardizes the status quo. Taking a closer look at the practices that are framed as morally dubious and increasingly repressed and controlled helps us make sense of the moral underpinnings that serve the reproduction of a social order presaged upon exacerbated consumption and the production of inequalities. Such an approach goes beyond merely illuminating the dynamics of exclusion grounded in the racialization and discrimination to which the Roma are undoubtedly subjected. It establishes a link between the explosion of security narratives, practices, and measures, and the larger contemporary context of capitalism and the current protracted crisis that it has engendered.

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Section: Rooting Through Dumpsterssupporting

confidence: 55%

Threatening the Social Order

Ivasiuc

2020

JEA

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“…The current trend of emphasizing segregation through the creation of neo‐ghettos has been linked to economic and political interests (Clough Marinaro, ; ) and to attempts to avoid harassment (Filčák and Steger, ; Powell and Lever, ). The pressures on Roma housing in Romanian urban areas has been considered in Lancione's (; ) and Chelcea's (; ) ethnographic works.…”

Section: Positioning Far Right Movements and Strategies Of Roma Stigmmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Get out of Traian Square!’: Roma Stigmatization as a Mobilizing Tool for the Far Right in Timişoara, Romania

Creţan¹,

O’Brien²

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Post‐communist Central and Eastern Europe has seen far right movements and parties gain considerable ground by drawing on nativist and ethnic claims to call for a return to an imagined past. In Romania, far right groups have been able to capitalize on a sense of injustice while also playing on historically negative feelings towards the Roma community. These patterns have been observed in Timişoara, where the group Noua Dreaptă (New Right) has established a foothold over the past decade by emphasizing claims that blame the Roma for loss of built heritage and corruption in the administration of property restitution. The aims of this article are to examine the emergence of Noua Dreaptă and its use of Roma stigmatization, and to consider the ways in which extreme views are normalized by appealing to beliefs and perceptions. The findings of the article show that pre‐existing prejudices can be a powerful force that not only targets marginalized communities, but also challenges administrative practices and builds organizational support. At the level of the city, it is possible to identify the way in which these claims can be more precisely calibrated to draw on concerns that circulate within the community.

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“…Critical perspectives related to post-colonial studies have highlighted the colonial origins of confinement measures and depicted the nomad camp system as a 'spatio-racial political technology' based on the simultaneous criminalization and protection of the so-called nomadic people (Picker, Greenfields and Smith, 2015). Nomad camps have also been defined as 'neo-ghettos'; that is, following Wacquant, a peculiar tool for managing urban marginality through control and punishment (Clough Marinaro, 2015).…”

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From Public Enemy to Urban Ghost

Daniele¹,

Pasta²,

Persico

2018

Intersections

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Roma migration from Eastern countries has been one of the main topics of public debate in Italy in the last decade. Roma people have been depicted as the biggest threat to citizens’ safety, especially in the biggest cities, and have become the target of special securitarian measures that revive old stereotypes. At the same time, thanks to various European bodies, Roma people have also became the targets of ad hoc inclusionary policies, such as the National Strategy for Inclusion. The deconstruction of the camp system for nomads was one of the basic targets of all the interventions. This article describes what happened to Roma migrants during the last ten years – from the ‘Nomad Emergency’ of 2007 until the present-day dismantling of the nomad camp system. It focuses on Roma migrants who live in the two Italian cities where most of the Romanian Roma have settled since the beginning of the 21st century: Milan and Rome. The paper analyzes the public policies that were implemented by national and local authorities, and highlights some of the strategies that Roma migrants use to cope with the dismantling of the nomad camp system.

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The Rise of Italy’s Neo-Ghettos

Cited by 29 publications

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Threatening the Social Order

Threatening the Social Order

‘Get out of Traian Square!’: Roma Stigmatization as a Mobilizing Tool for the Far Right in Timişoara, Romania

From Public Enemy to Urban Ghost

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