Gitans de Barcelone à Perpignan

Gypsies from Barcelona to Perpignan : Crises and Borders. Alain TARRIUS et Lamia MISSAOUI When, in the 50's and 60's, the Catalan gypsies on both sides of the border lost the economic complementarity bounding them to local societies thanks to horse dealing and leather work activities, they reduced the community ties created on seminomadism routes to those of strictly clanic networks. These trans-border clanic ties made it possible to develop heroin underground economies from Barcelona from the moment that, pushed by growing misery and local political dependence, they became organized as a mafia. This drug trafficking is grafted onto larger underground ethnic economies controlled by Senegalese, Moroccan and Andalusian gypsies. As for the Catalan gypsies, they keep the heroin they pass for self-consumption; therefore, HIV contamination takes alarming proportions (up to 8 % among men of 25 to 45) and gives way to conservative attempts at a return to old values particularly aiming at women's submission. In actual fact, the « crisis effect » hides a slow but sharp rise in the autonomisation of gypsy women and suggests solutions likely to disrupt the constituent norms of the gypsy community bond

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