ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the national regulations and legislations together with the local policy of evictions, to illustrate how the lawful entry of Romanian Roma has been deemed illegitimate. It shows how the Roma in Italy were constituted as abject Italian citizens through their labelling as nomads and through the production of nomad camps'. The chapter analyses how the Nomad Emergency Decree and 2008 Security Package have constituted the Roma as abject European citizens. In introducing measures to facilitate their repatriation from Italy, the Italian government reinforces the illegitimacy of transnational Roma mobility. These measures have relied on the figure of the nomad' and the symbolic space of the nomad camp' that conjure up an image of excessive mobility and objected spaces of settlement. Through these measures, Romanian Roma experience deportability despite their regularity; deportability is experienced through local policies that target unauthorised encampments, evicting and destroying them on a regular basis.
