1st Edition

Social Justice and Adequate Housing Rights, Roma Inclusion and the Feeling of Home

By Silvia Cittadini Copyright 2021
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents a critical analysis of the concept of ‘adequate housing’. While the concept of adequate housing is used largely as a normative standard in the protection of housing rights and in the implementation of housing policies, its apparent objectivity and universality have never been questioned by political and legal theory. This book analyses and challenges the understanding of... Read more

Introduction: Roma inclusion as a starting point for a reflection on social justice and adequate housing 1. "Adequate housing" in policy and law: limits and ways forward 2. Pisa, the project "Città Sottili" ("Thin Cities") 3. Messina, the project "Casa e/é Lavoro" (House and/is Work) 4 Trento-Rovereto: micro-areas and public housing 5. From adequate housing to home: the home-making approach

Biography

Silvia Cittadini is a research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum. She holds a PhD in Politics, Human Rights and Sustainability, obtained in 2019 at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, and she has been a post-doctoral research fellow at the Romani Studies Program of the Central European University in Budapest and a research fellow at the European Centre for Minority Issues of Flensburg, Germany.