Roma Container Camps Italy
53 images Created 19 Nov 2008
Roma Container Camps on the outskirts of Rome, where thousands of Roma now live, next to motorways, rubbish dumps or cemeteries. Originally they'd resided within Rome's city walls, or in rural spaces near the city, in easy reach of amenities, where they could find shops to buy food and ways to make money. Many Roma work inside informal recycling structures, all the family breaking metal, or playing music in the subway, sometimes selling flowers or begging on the streets. The Roma were evicted from the sites they'd made their homes, where their homes and belongings had been often trashed or raised to the ground, sometimes to allow for gentrification or just to get rid of the Roma from the city, leaving their old homes as vacant spaces. Roma Gypsies, as always are victims of society's racism and discrimination, forcibly evicted or moved from one camp to another, taken a long way outside urban spaces, and placed in the periphery, without proper shelter or amenities in what resemble concentration camps, without any trees for shelter from the heat.