A Sociology of the Camps’ Persisting Architecture. Why Did Rome not Put an End to Expensive Ethnic Housing Policies?

Maestri, Gaja; Vitale, Tommaso

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53477-0_13

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“…The municipality of Rome (as well as municipalities in many other cities in Italy) subsequently created emergency structures for housing the Roma temporarily. However, these camps persist to this day (see Maestri and Vitale, ). Over and above the poor health and safety conditions that characterize the overcrowded camps (see Associazione 21 Luglio, 2018) (see also Figure ), the Roma people who live in these camps also experience residential segregation, isolation and territorial stigma.…”

Section: The Roma Join the Squatting Movement: Collective Action For mentioning

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The Nomad, The Squatter and the State: Roma Racialization and Spatial Politics in Italy

Maestri¹

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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What happens when Roma people move from the space of an informal settlement to that of a squat of a housing rights movement? In this article, which is based on the analysis of housing squats involving Roma people in the Italian capital city of Rome, I argue that this move is more than a housing solution: it is a new form of contentious and aesthetic politics. In Rome approximately 7,000 Roma face extreme housing deprivation and segregation, in both official and makeshift camps. While different associations have for many years advocated Roma housing inclusion through a minority and human‐rights framework, in the aftermath of the 2007/2008 economic crisis an increasing number of Roma have moved to squats set up by social movement activists. The aim of the article is threefold. First, it illustrates the collective action repertoire of Roma‐squatting. Secondly, it considers its aesthetic politics, which through spatial dislocation unsettles the racializing discourse endorsed by policymakers that underpins the segregation of the Roma. Finally, this article unpacks the process of politicization of Roma‐squatting and discusses the urban frames and material resources that consolidate this transformation through a comparison of four housing squats that Roma people joined.

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Section: The Roma Join the Squatting Movement: Collective Action For mentioning

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The Nomad, The Squatter and the State: Roma Racialization and Spatial Politics in Italy

Maestri¹

2019

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…According to scholars (Daniele, 2016;Maestri and Vitale, 2017), in the last 30 years policies toward Roma groups in Rome appear to be characterized by recurring cycles of emergencies or tragic events followed by announcements of new and radical plans of intervention. Both the right-and the left-wing administrations acted within the rhetorical frame of a supposed 'nomad emergency' and based their interventions on the nomad camp system.…”

Section: Rome: a Policy Shift Without A Policymentioning

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“…The overlapping of the two events blocked all political initiatives in relation to the Roma, because personnel at every level of the chain of Roman governance of the nomad camps ended up involved in the investigations. The only initiative that was implemented during Marino's administration, was the closure of another authorized settlement (the one located in Via Cesarina), but all of the Roma residents were displaced to a Collection Center for Roma people, and no other kind of housing policy was created (Maestri and Vitale, 2017).…”

Section: Rome: a Policy Shift Without A Policymentioning

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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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“…According to Maestri (2019), segregation is not only produced by the intertwinement of globalisation, changes in the labour market and neoliberal policies that lead to a disinvestment in social policies for most marginalised categories, it is also shaped by the role of civil society actors, increasingly so in times of crisis and welfare restructuring. In accordance with the statement of Maestri and Vitale (2017), they are often internal actors who do not develop demands for change and direction towards the integration and empowerment of Roma.…”

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Public transport accessibility and spatial exclusion in Roma settlements: A case study of three regions in Eastern Slovakia

Horňák¹,

Hluško²,

Rochovská³

et al. 2023

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Spatial isolation and social exclusion of some of the Roma communities have been a long-term issue in specific Slovakia regions. Along with some other factors, these may contribute to poor access to labour markets for Roma residents of such communities. As public transport acts as an important means of mobility of socially excluded residents, we consider the quality and accessibility of the public transport network as an important element that can impact on the spatially isolated Roma’s ability to reach labour markets, as well as services, education, etc. Based on our empirical evidence, this paper aims to provide a better understanding and analysis of the social exclusion of segregated Roma neighbourhoods in the context of spatial exclusion and transport disadvantage related to public transportation accessibility. We tried to focus on physical accessibility of public transport points for the communities, as well as on the quality and frequency of public transport services available at these points for residents of Roma communities. Our research covered three different regions of Eastern Slovakia, where the concentration of Roma communities is high compared to the rest of the country.

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A Sociology of the Camps’ Persisting Architecture. Why Did Rome not Put an End to Expensive Ethnic Housing Policies?

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

The Nomad, The Squatter and the State: Roma Racialization and Spatial Politics in Italy

The Nomad, The Squatter and the State: Roma Racialization and Spatial Politics in Italy

From Public Enemy to Urban Ghost

Public transport accessibility and spatial exclusion in Roma settlements: A case study of three regions in Eastern Slovakia

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