When Ethnic Identity Becomes a Prison: The Case of the Roma Community in Italy

Authors

  • Anna Rita Calabro University of Pavia, Italy

Keywords:

Roma communities, identity, integration

Abstract

The essay is composed by two surveys carried out almost twenty years apart about the Roma (i) communities living in Milan and its hinterland. The essay is divided into two parts: the first one presents the Italian situation and the historical context. It offers an analytical study of the origins of the Roma communities living in the country and the path to the current situation; the second part deals with questions such as identity and integration.

Author Biography

Anna Rita Calabro, University of Pavia, Italy

Department of Political and Social Sciences

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Published

2013-01-23

Issue

Vol. 5(54) No. 2 (2012)

Section

SOCIOLOGY

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Copyright (c) 2012 Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov. Series VII: Social Sciences • Law

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