Massimo Conte, researcher and founding member of Codici | Ricerca e Intervento, published on his blog on Qcode Magazine a focus in two articles about the Roma camp of Via Idro and its closure.

In fact, between late October and early November 2015, the municipality announced its dismantling. The camp was founded 26 years ago in Via Padova and is inhabited by more than hundred roma harwati. The inhabitants, together with associations and citizens, have mobilized against this decision of municipality.

They question the politics of dismantling nomad camps that has been carried out in Italy for years now with both migrant and Italian Roma, leading to even more exclusion and precarious life conditions.

Among them, Massimo Conte, who in his articles tells the story of the negotiations between the municipality and the other parties involved and the daily life of the camp, through a portrait of one of the families who live there since decades. A diary from the field of Via Idro which puts general questions, as what ‘home’ means and what it means to ‘inhabit a territory’. Read more on QCode Magazine.

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