{"id":1119,"date":"2014-12-05T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/05-12-2014-increasing-xenophobia-and-rroma-hostility-in-italy\/"},"modified":"2022-07-24T16:07:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T15:07:38","slug":"05-12-2014-increasing-xenophobia-and-rroma-hostility-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/05-12-2014-increasing-xenophobia-and-rroma-hostility-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"05.12.2014 Increasing xenophobia and Rroma-hostility in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sigona (2014) reports on \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tincreasing xenophobia and Rroma-hostility in Italy. The author is concerned about \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thow Rroma have frequently become the target of xenophobic attacks in the last \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfew months and years. To counteract this increasingly xenophobic climate, the president \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof the Tuscany region, Enrico Rossi, set an example with a photo \u2013 showing him \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttogether with a group of Rroma: \u201cIn the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tphoto, Rossi stands flanked by a family of men, women and children. It\u2019s a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSunday afternoon in Florence. \u201cLet me introduce my neighbours\u201d reads the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdescription posted on Facebook. His neighbours are Romanian Roma. [\u2026] The picture \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twas taken just a few weeks after Matteo Salvini, the new leader of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tanti-immigration, anti-EU Northern League, paid a controversial visit to a Roma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcamp in Bologna to see how \u201ctax money was spent\u201d. Salvini has made regular \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tverbal attacks on Roma and migrants, a core part of his party\u2019s attempt to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trebrand itself as Italy\u2019s answer to the French Front National. The steady rise \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin his approval rating would suggest that it\u2019s working.\u201d <\/em>As in France is, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe public focus in Italy lies on a marginalised minority of Rroma, who live in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinformal settlements and are presented in a most biased way. Right-wing nationalist \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tparties present the minority as scapegoats for problems that have their origin \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin society as a whole. The majority of the estimated 90,000 to 110,000 Rroma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat have been living integrated in Italy since generations are largely hidden.<\/p>\n