1st Edition
Romani People in Italy The Different Shades of Segregation
Introduction
1 The research framework
2 Policies of exclusion, persecution, and segregation: A multilevel historical analysis
3 Migratory and housing stratification
4 Living in the camps: Romani camps as urban ghettos
5 Going established
Conclusion
Biography
Vincenzo Romania is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Padua, Italy. He has written on migration, identity, and interaction. His recent works include ‘“Italians locked at home, illegal migrants free to disembark”: How populist parties re-contextualized the anti-immigration discourse at the time of COVID-19 pandemic’ (2024, with Dario Lucchesi), ‘Migratory Stratifications and Social Ageing. Disentangling Change in a Tunisian Community in Italy’ (2024, with Andrea Calabretta), ‘Interactional Anomie? Imaging Social Distance after COVID-19: A Goffmanian Perspective’ (2020), and ‘Terrorism as Ritual Process and Cultural Trauma: A Performative Analysis of ISIS’s Attacks in Europe’ (2017, with Serena Tozzo).
Tommaso Bertazzo is a PhD student in social sciences at the University of Padua, Italy. His main research interests are focused on urban and rural studies, community studies, and Romani studies. He has written on migration and political participation. His recent works include ‘Building participation. The participatory dimension in refugees and asylum seekers in Emilia-Romagna’ (2022) and ‘Participating Migrants’ (2021).
