Marco Solimene
Biographic Data
| ID | 809969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marco Solimene |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marco |
| FAMILY NAME | Solimene |
| SIGNATURE | SOLIMENE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0461-8943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The stakes of the body: Power and subversion in Roman shanties
This article builds on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Bosnian Roma families living in the Roman peripheries. The discussion gravitates around two different but connected circumstances: an eviction of an informal settlement occurred in 2007 and a children birthday party celebrated in an authorized camp in 2023. The article explores changes and continuities in the governance of the Roma in Rome and highlights the use of heterogeneous biopoli…
The Anthropologist’s Engagement: Lessons from a Digital Ethnography of a Nomad Camp in Times of Covid-19
The Bosnian House: Trajectories of (Non‐)Return Among Bosnian Roma in a Roman Shanty
This article draws on materials collected during ethnographic fieldwork among Bosnian Roma refugees who reconstructed homes in an urban shanty at the periphery of Rome (Italy). In the last two decades, many of these Roma started building or refurbishing houses in villages in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, close to the Serbian Republic (where their former home village is now situated). The construction, refurbishing, and maintenance of …
The Bureaucratic Trap: Registered Residence and Sedentist Bias in Italian Social Cohesion Policies for Roma and Sinti
This article addresses the issue of sedentist bias in development by exploring nuances and contradictions in local social cohesion policies that target the Roma and Sinti population in Italy. European cohesion policies are embedded in a decades-long history of development discourses aimed at economically underdeveloped regions within Europe as well as vulnerable social groups. The latter include groups like Roma and Sinti, who, although historica…
The complexity of home and estrangement. Young Roma generations between Bosnia and Roman peripheries
Building on the literature on transnationalism, return and home, this paper explores the relationship that young generations of Roma in Rome (Italy) develop with their parents’ and grandparents’ land of origin: Bosnia. This relationship is shaped by older generations’ memories of the ‘good old days’ in Bosnia; it also builds on first-hand experiences of contemporary Bosnia; moreover, it is embedded in the everyday experience of the Roman peripher…
La rencontre d'abord. Contributions d'une anthropologie romanès à l'anthropologie générale
L'hommage à Patrick Williams que nous proposons dans cet article est un hommage à une certaine approche anthropologique des Tsiganes-Roms qu'il a contribuée à construire avec constance et conscience : une approche originale qui fonde solidement toute proposition théorique sur l'expérience ethnographique de la rencontre réelle avec des personnes qui incarnent différentes façons de penser et de vivre notre monde. Dans cet article, nous montrerons c…
Flexible Epistemologies: Gypsy/roma Thinking and Anthropology Theory
This article reflects on the conceptual debt that anthropology has developed towards the peoples it studies, by exploring the case-study of Gypsy/Roma anthropology. We argue that ethnographically-grounded research has enabled anthropologists to access and incorporate Gypsy/Roma visions and practices of the world. The flexible Gypsy epistemologies, which Gypsies/Roma use in the social and cultural construction of particular forms of identity and m…
Navigating the (in)formal city: Roma, urban life and governance in Rome
The (in)formal, the (il)legal and the (il)licit. Roma informal settlements and institutional pragmatics of compromise and compassion in a Roman periphery
Romani (Im)Mobility, between Camps, Evictions and Ambivalent Representations of 'Nomads' in the Eternal City
This paper explores the trajectories of Bosnian Romani families who migrated to Rome between 1970 and 2000. These families were involved in the Italian and Roman authorities' attempts to govern 'Gypsies/Roma/ Nomads' through different combinations of inclusion and exclusion, and forced to face the radicalisation of xenophobic and anti-Gypsy discourses within Italian society. This paper unravels the complex relations between Romani practices and i…
Challenging Europe’s external borders and internal boundaries. Bosnian Xoraxané Xomá on the move in Roman peripheries and the contemporary European Union
This paper explores, from an ethnographic standpoint, the mobility of a Bosnian Romani community in relation to the xenophobic and anti-Romani discourses that are pervading contemporary Italian and European society in the time of the so-called migrant crisis. The analysis focuses on some so-called Xomá families who live dispersed among illegal shanties in the Rome and whose movements and social network protract into other Italian and European cit…
Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
Undressing the gağé clad in state garb: Bosnian xoraxané romá face to face with the Italian authorities
The article examines the relations between a group of Bosnian xoraxané romá living in Rome (Italy) and the Italian authorities. Although exposed (as Roma and immigrants) to discriminating and marginalising policies, the romá are reluctant to engage in open political struggles. This reluctance results from an awareness of the disadvantaged position of Roma and immigrants in interactions with Italian authorities. It is grounded in a general distrus…
These Romanians have ruined Italy’. Xoraxané Romá, Romanian Roma and Rome
The article focuses on the recent large-scale immigration of Romanian Roma to Italy and its impact on the city of Rome. This influx provoked widespread alarm, triggering xenophobic incidents by some Romans and repressive policies by the authorities. It also provoked a small 'earthquake' within the Romani world, since the newcomers started to occupy similar social, cultural and economic spaces to the other Roma groups already present in Rome; the …
These Romanians have ruined Italy’. Xoraxané Romá, Romanian Roma and Rome
The article focuses on the recent large-scale immigration of Romanian Roma to Italy and its impact on the city of Rome. This influx provoked widespread alarm, triggering xenophobic incidents by some Romans and repressive policies by the authorities. It also provoked a small 'earthquake' within the Romani world, since the newcomers started to occupy similar social, cultural and economic spaces to the other Roma groups already present in Rome; the …
Challenging Europe’s external borders and internal boundaries. Bosnian Xoraxané Xomá on the move in Roman peripheries and the contemporary European Union
This paper explores, from an ethnographic standpoint, the mobility of a Bosnian Romani community in relation to the xenophobic and anti-Romani discourses that are pervading contemporary Italian and European society in the time of the so-called migrant crisis. The analysis focuses on some so-called Xomá families who live dispersed among illegal shanties in the Rome and whose movements and social network protract into other Italian and European cit…
Undressing the gağé clad in state garb: Bosnian xoraxané romá face to face with the Italian authorities
The article examines the relations between a group of Bosnian xoraxané romá living in Rome (Italy) and the Italian authorities. Although exposed (as Roma and immigrants) to discriminating and marginalising policies, the romá are reluctant to engage in open political struggles. This reluctance results from an awareness of the disadvantaged position of Roma and immigrants in interactions with Italian authorities. It is grounded in a general distrus…
Romani (Im)Mobility, between Camps, Evictions and Ambivalent Representations of 'Nomads' in the Eternal City
This paper explores the trajectories of Bosnian Romani families who migrated to Rome between 1970 and 2000. These families were involved in the Italian and Roman authorities' attempts to govern 'Gypsies/Roma/ Nomads' through different combinations of inclusion and exclusion, and forced to face the radicalisation of xenophobic and anti-Gypsy discourses within Italian society. This paper unravels the complex relations between Romani practices and i…
Navigating the (in)formal city: Roma, urban life and governance in Rome
The Bureaucratic Trap: Registered Residence and Sedentist Bias in Italian Social Cohesion Policies for Roma and Sinti
This article addresses the issue of sedentist bias in development by exploring nuances and contradictions in local social cohesion policies that target the Roma and Sinti population in Italy. European cohesion policies are embedded in a decades-long history of development discourses aimed at economically underdeveloped regions within Europe as well as vulnerable social groups. The latter include groups like Roma and Sinti, who, although historica…
The complexity of home and estrangement. Young Roma generations between Bosnia and Roman peripheries
Building on the literature on transnationalism, return and home, this paper explores the relationship that young generations of Roma in Rome (Italy) develop with their parents’ and grandparents’ land of origin: Bosnia. This relationship is shaped by older generations’ memories of the ‘good old days’ in Bosnia; it also builds on first-hand experiences of contemporary Bosnia; moreover, it is embedded in the everyday experience of the Roman peripher…
Flexible Epistemologies: Gypsy/roma Thinking and Anthropology Theory
This article reflects on the conceptual debt that anthropology has developed towards the peoples it studies, by exploring the case-study of Gypsy/Roma anthropology. We argue that ethnographically-grounded research has enabled anthropologists to access and incorporate Gypsy/Roma visions and practices of the world. The flexible Gypsy epistemologies, which Gypsies/Roma use in the social and cultural construction of particular forms of identity and m…
These Romanians have ruined Italy’. Xoraxané Romá, Romanian Roma and Rome
The article focuses on the recent large-scale immigration of Romanian Roma to Italy and its impact on the city of Rome. This influx provoked widespread alarm, triggering xenophobic incidents by some Romans and repressive policies by the authorities. It also provoked a small 'earthquake' within the Romani world, since the newcomers started to occupy similar social, cultural and economic spaces to the other Roma groups already present in Rome; the …
Undressing the gağé clad in state garb: Bosnian xoraxané romá face to face with the Italian authorities
The article examines the relations between a group of Bosnian xoraxané romá living in Rome (Italy) and the Italian authorities. Although exposed (as Roma and immigrants) to discriminating and marginalising policies, the romá are reluctant to engage in open political struggles. This reluctance results from an awareness of the disadvantaged position of Roma and immigrants in interactions with Italian authorities. It is grounded in a general distrus…
Gypsy Economy: Romani Livelihoods and Notions of Worth in the 21st Century
Challenging Europe’s external borders and internal boundaries. Bosnian Xoraxané Xomá on the move in Roman peripheries and the contemporary European Union
This paper explores, from an ethnographic standpoint, the mobility of a Bosnian Romani community in relation to the xenophobic and anti-Romani discourses that are pervading contemporary Italian and European society in the time of the so-called migrant crisis. The analysis focuses on some so-called Xomá families who live dispersed among illegal shanties in the Rome and whose movements and social network protract into other Italian and European cit…
Romani (Im)Mobility, between Camps, Evictions and Ambivalent Representations of 'Nomads' in the Eternal City
This paper explores the trajectories of Bosnian Romani families who migrated to Rome between 1970 and 2000. These families were involved in the Italian and Roman authorities' attempts to govern 'Gypsies/Roma/ Nomads' through different combinations of inclusion and exclusion, and forced to face the radicalisation of xenophobic and anti-Gypsy discourses within Italian society. This paper unravels the complex relations between Romani practices and i…
The (in)formal, the (il)legal and the (il)licit. Roma informal settlements and institutional pragmatics of compromise and compassion in a Roman periphery
Flexible Epistemologies: Gypsy/roma Thinking and Anthropology Theory
This article reflects on the conceptual debt that anthropology has developed towards the peoples it studies, by exploring the case-study of Gypsy/Roma anthropology. We argue that ethnographically-grounded research has enabled anthropologists to access and incorporate Gypsy/Roma visions and practices of the world. The flexible Gypsy epistemologies, which Gypsies/Roma use in the social and cultural construction of particular forms of identity and m…
Navigating the (in)formal city: Roma, urban life and governance in Rome
La rencontre d'abord. Contributions d'une anthropologie romanès à l'anthropologie générale
L'hommage à Patrick Williams que nous proposons dans cet article est un hommage à une certaine approche anthropologique des Tsiganes-Roms qu'il a contribuée à construire avec constance et conscience : une approche originale qui fonde solidement toute proposition théorique sur l'expérience ethnographique de la rencontre réelle avec des personnes qui incarnent différentes façons de penser et de vivre notre monde. Dans cet article, nous montrerons c…
The complexity of home and estrangement. Young Roma generations between Bosnia and Roman peripheries
Building on the literature on transnationalism, return and home, this paper explores the relationship that young generations of Roma in Rome (Italy) develop with their parents’ and grandparents’ land of origin: Bosnia. This relationship is shaped by older generations’ memories of the ‘good old days’ in Bosnia; it also builds on first-hand experiences of contemporary Bosnia; moreover, it is embedded in the everyday experience of the Roman peripher…
The Bureaucratic Trap: Registered Residence and Sedentist Bias in Italian Social Cohesion Policies for Roma and Sinti
This article addresses the issue of sedentist bias in development by exploring nuances and contradictions in local social cohesion policies that target the Roma and Sinti population in Italy. European cohesion policies are embedded in a decades-long history of development discourses aimed at economically underdeveloped regions within Europe as well as vulnerable social groups. The latter include groups like Roma and Sinti, who, although historica…
The Anthropologist’s Engagement: Lessons from a Digital Ethnography of a Nomad Camp in Times of Covid-19
The Bosnian House: Trajectories of (Non‐)Return Among Bosnian Roma in a Roman Shanty
This article draws on materials collected during ethnographic fieldwork among Bosnian Roma refugees who reconstructed homes in an urban shanty at the periphery of Rome (Italy). In the last two decades, many of these Roma started building or refurbishing houses in villages in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, close to the Serbian Republic (where their former home village is now situated). The construction, refurbishing, and maintenance of …
The stakes of the body: Power and subversion in Roman shanties
This article builds on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with Bosnian Roma families living in the Roman peripheries. The discussion gravitates around two different but connected circumstances: an eviction of an informal settlement occurred in 2007 and a children birthday party celebrated in an authorized camp in 2023. The article explores changes and continuities in the governance of the Roma in Rome and highlights the use of heterogeneous biopoli…
Romani and Gypsy Studies (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Bosnian (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social science (5 works)