ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the history of housing policies towards Roma people in the city of Naples, considers the building and re-building of confinement spaces, such as camps and shelter centres, as a form of bordering van Houtum and van Naerssen, 2002. The extension of borders behind the geographical edge of the European Union (EU), the history of housing policies towards Roma people in Naples relates to the multiplication and fragmentation of borders within the European region itself. Since the Schengen agreement was incorporated into the mainstream of European Union law, new instruments and strategies to hierarchise inclusion in the citizenship rights system are proliferating. Most Roma people in Italy live in normal dwellings and very often those living in a camp would prefer to flee from it. The Roma living in the specific forms of racialised and enclosed spaces that the Italian society has chosen for them should be carefully and further analysed.
