The 'Camps System' in Italy Corruption, Inefficiencies and Practices of Resistance /

• Main Author: Armillei, Riccardo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Mapping Global Racisms
• Subjects: Social structure.; Social inequality.; Ethnicity.; Racism in the social sciences.; Political sociology.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Ethnicity Studies.; Sociology of Racism.; Political Sociology.

This book deals with the social exclusion of Romanies ('Gypsies') in Italy. Based on interviews with Romani individuals, institutional and Civil Society Organisations' (CSOs) representatives, participant observation and a broad range of secondary sources, the volume focuses on the con...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Inside 'campi nomadi': The Italian Approach to the Global Shanty Town Development. - 2. The Institutional and Spatial Segregation of Romanies in Italy
• 3. The Paradoxes of the Italian Approach Towards the Romani People
• 4. The Business of the Camps During the 'Nomad Emergency'
• 5. Between Self-Determination and 'Collective-Identity Closure'
• 6. Conclusions.