Immigrant Roma In Sicily: The Role Of The Informal Economy In Producing Social Advancement | IsumaTV

Immigrant Roma In Sicily: The Role Of The Informal Economy In Producing Social Advancement | IsumaTV

Immigrant Roma In Sicily: The Role Of The Informal Economy In Producing Social Advancement Pietro Saitta, 2010 The article focuses on Mazara del Vallo, Sicily. It aims to show how a group of Roma from Kosovo, living in the area since the 1970s, has gained a livelihood through such enterprizing methods as music, improvized handicrafts and small-scale drug dealing. Their precarious situation is conditioned in large measure by the complex interplay of state regulations and the practice of...

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