Víc než zbraně slabých: Rezistence Romů vůči sekuritizační politice

Abstract

Over the last two decades, the Roma in Italy have shifted from being the subject 
of social policy to being subjected to securitization processes. As a result, the most 
destitute groups among the Roma in Italy – those living in the so-called campi 
nomadi – have been increasingly governed through security policies, measures, 
and apparatuses. Placed in segregated camps, often surrounded by surveillance 
cameras, and increasingly subjected to police control and repression, the Roma are 
not passive to the ways in which they are securitized and governed. Grounding 
my argument in an ethnography of formal and informal policing of the Roma in 
the peripheries of Rome carried out between 2014 and 2017, I explore how Roma 
react to their own securitization. I propose a relational approach that goes beyond 
conceptualizing Romani resistance in terms of the Scottian concepts of ‘hidden 
transcripts’ or ‘weapons of the weak,’ and focus on how Roma attempt to overtly 
shape their relationships to police, as well as to the material environment in which 
they are constrained to live.