This article – using Pisa as an exemplary case – proposes a reflection on the policies regarding the local Roma population after the arrival of Roma groups in the mid-1980s from ex-Yugoslavia and from the year 2000 from Romania. In this essay I intend to emphasize how, in the long term, policies of refusal and exclusion have been preferred to policies of interaction and inclusion. This has been due to the construction of “discourse of truth” – dominating in the urban public arena – where Roma are represented as bearers of insecurity and urban decay. This process of labeling and blaming – as well as escalating romophobia – has produced a deep exclusion of Roma men and women, virtually reducing their existence to “nude life”.
I rom e la nuda vita. Politica, comitati e sicuritarismo a Pisa
Tindaro Bellinvia
2012-01-01
Abstract
This article – using Pisa as an exemplary case – proposes a reflection on the policies regarding the local Roma population after the arrival of Roma groups in the mid-1980s from ex-Yugoslavia and from the year 2000 from Romania. In this essay I intend to emphasize how, in the long term, policies of refusal and exclusion have been preferred to policies of interaction and inclusion. This has been due to the construction of “discourse of truth” – dominating in the urban public arena – where Roma are represented as bearers of insecurity and urban decay. This process of labeling and blaming – as well as escalating romophobia – has produced a deep exclusion of Roma men and women, virtually reducing their existence to “nude life”.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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