Romani people in Italy
Ethnic group
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Romani people in Italy (Italian: Rom in Italia) have been living in Italy since the 15th century.[1] The Sinti, a Romani subgroup, arrived from the north. Others migrated from the Balkans and settled in Southern Italy and Central Italy.[2] Muslim Roma migrated to Italy from Bosnia and Kosovo at the time of the Balkan wars.[3]
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Numbers
In 2015 in Italy there are at about 150,000 (70,000 Italian citizens) of Romani people origins. The three cities with most number of Romanis are: Rome, Milan and Naples.[4]
Life in Italy
According to a May 2008 poll, 68% of Italians wanted to see all of the country's approximately 150,000 Romanis, many of whom were Italian citizens, expelled.[5] The survey, published as mobs in Naples burned down Romani camps that month, revealed that the majority also wanted all Romani camps in Italy to be demolished.[5]
A 2015 poll conducted by Pew Research found that 86% of Italians have unfavourable views of Romani people.[6]
On June 18, 2018, Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini announced the government would conduct a census of Romani people in Italy for the purpose of deporting all who are not in the country legally.[7][8][9][10] However this measure was criticized as unconstitutional and was opposed by all the oppositions and also by some members of the M5S.[11]
Romanis in Italy
- Agostino Cardamone (1965), boxer
- Gigi Meroni (1943-1967), football player
- Moira Orfei (1931–2015), circus artist, actress
- Liana Orfei (1937), circus artist, actress
- Michele di Rocco (1982), professional boxer
- Domenico Spada, boxer[12]
See also
