ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the issue of Roma people's human insecurity and obscures by the dominant discourse of Roma-related issues as a matter of public security. The so-called insecurity attributed to Roma communities in Italy and in most European countries must be focusing on Roma people's ignored human security, namely on personal and community security. Despite the recent shift in the Italian Government's rhetoric concerning the Roma, from a public security to an inclusion discourse, Roma are the people at most risk of victimization of abuses, violence and sometimes homicide. Italian public discourse has deployed many labels to describe the Roma people that have reinforced stereotypes about them through harsh and inadequate legislations, policies and practices. From Newman's studies and Tomovska's research on Roma, the Roma people's insecurity in the neoliberal frame of securitarian governance can be understood. The National Strategy acknowledges the inadequacy of Roma evictions and emphasizes the need to adopt: an integrated and sustainable medium-long term approach.
