“The Italian right has handed fascism over to ... claims to have been “enforcing the law” in targeting the Roma people, should discredit any notion that the new governing coalition has ...

She belongs to the Roma (Gypsy) community, Italy's largest ethnic minority that numbers up to 180,000. But lately the whole idea of what it means to be Italian for people like her has been called ...

Despite living on the Italian peninsula since the 14th century, Romani people have historically been seen as outsiders in Italian society. That is why they, alongside Jews, were targeted by the ...

In 2018, Salvini pledged to carry out a census and deport Romani people living in Italy illegally. “He made a mistake. He made a fool of himself,” Salvini said. “Problems are resolved with ...

and nomad meaning they are exclusively home to people of Romani ethnicity whom Italian society still refers to as nomads (based on the assumption that all Roma are nomadic by nature). Italian ...

Salving was also taking aim at Italy's 26,000 Roma, calling for their camps to be bulldozed because he said they were hotbeds of crime. Rome's city authorities cleared some 450 people out of an ...

Read on to learn more about the Romani People in the Renaissance ... the wealthier merchant and banking families, particularly in Italy and France, for luxurious and exotic commodities sourced ...

Authorities in Italy have denied housing to Roma families — even those born in Italy — on the grounds that people living in cheap, makeshift metal containers in isolated Roma camps already ...

But Italy’s new interior minister, Matteo Salvini, went too far even for his allies this week when he announced that he would conduct a census of Roma people in Italy, a prelude to expelling ...