ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the practices that aim to delimit an enclosed citizenship through the identification of its outsiders, in fact produce a range of diverse subject positions that are at once included within and excluded from the political community. For the members of Rete G2, the murder of Abdoul Guiebre was a rupture that again revealed the limits of Italianness. It revealed, furthermore, the limits of legal citizenship; in claiming that they felt growing insecurity in the face of the Security Package, they claimed to be excluded from the privileges of that legal citizenship. As such, the death of Guiebre and, more importantly, the reaction to it in the media, in the forums of Rete G2, and at the protests in his memory, revealed the dual nature of citizenship. Here their nomadism was understood as an excessive mobility that not only expelled Roma from sedentary society, but from any form of territorial belonging, most specifically that of the nation-state.
