Educazione e rieducazione nei campi per "nomadi"

This article outlines a brief history of Roma and Sinti camps in Italy identifying in it continuities and discountinuities. In the concept of education/re-education of the Roma and Sinti people it points out a leitmotiv linking to the concentration camps for Gypsies of the 1940's the «nomad camps» that as they appeared in the late 1960's were believed to be as a simple bureaucratic expression and a "positive" solution to the "problema zingari". The alleged nomadic lifestyle of Roma and Sinti, which for the Nazi geneticists was caused by a specific gene, the "wandertrieb", is still used today to justify and legitimise the existence of camps and the physical segregation of the inmates. The camps are built and managed by the local authorities still pursuing a traditional itinerant lifestyle is a tiny minority compared to the total of the Roma and Sinti living in Italy.