Research
Employment situation of Roma and Sinti communities in Padua
Context based research
Research
Context based research
The dynamics linked to access to the labor market for the Roma and Sinti minorities present in the city appear to be particularly complex.
Also in this case, as in other contexts analyzed during the course of this research, we observe the addition of some contingent factors, each of which contributes to producing a condition of profound and worrying job segregation for the members of these groups.
First of all, the housing condition, located in many cases on the edge of the city, as in the case of the inhabitants of the “Via Longhin camp” or the tenants of the “Hope Village”, makes remote the chances of generating stable social ties with the citizens.
Furthermore, in the case of the inhabitants of the camp, this spatial isolation is compounded by the stigma, as confirmed by much of the literature, that the condition of life in the camp brings with it. This stigma thus ends up indelibly labeling the members of these communities, thus making the hypothesis of a job assumption unlikely.
To these conditions is also added, for many of the members of these minorities, the low schooling rate, which in many cases leads to worrying conditions of functional illiteracy and the presence, for many subjects, of a criminal record.
For this reasons, many of the members of these groups dedicate themselves to occasional work activities, for which particular specializations are not required, most of the time conducted independently, as in the case of the collection of ferrous material or the license of carousel.
Within these minorities we therefore witness the coexistence of different dimensions of inequality and social disadvantage, which end up, from time to time, according to the contexts and situations, to combine and mix with each other. These same inequalities, in addition to making worrying forms of labor segregation possible, as in the Paduan case, will also represent the original material from which prejudices and stereotypes will end up being produced and reproduced, which, in turn amplified by public representations and thus offered to perceptions municipalities, will end up isolating these communities in real dead ends.
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