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SPECIAL CLASSES FOR ROMA CHILDREN IN ITALY: THE STORY OF THE ‘LACIO DROM’ PROJECT

Author: Maura Madeddu

In 1965 the economy in Italy was booming, the country had already started learning the dynamics of being a democracy and a republic, and everybody was working hard to leave the destruction and brutalities of the Second World War and of fascism...

A MEMORIAL IN JASENOVAC

Unfortunately, people don't talk about the genocide of the Roma very often, which is why many people don't know about it at all. During the Second World War, the Ustasha, collaborators of the Nazis, killed the vast majority of Roma in the territories...

JASENOVAC AND THE GENOCIDE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

Author: Maura Madeddu

The horrors of the Second World War resulted in the murder of millions of people in concentration camps by the Nazis, together with the Italian Fascist forces led by Benito Mussolini and other various collaborationist groups and governments that...

WHEN HATRED PERMEATES SOCIETY: COUNTERING HATE SPEECH

Author: Maura Madeddu

For several decades now, both experts and general readers have been exposed to a recurrent usage of specific words meant to try to describe in a more detailed and comprehensive manner phenomena related to hate. Some of these concepts are not new at...

SEARCH FOR THE ROMANI PROTO-LANGUAGE

Author: Anna Krainova

Establishing the origins of a language is important not only from a linguistic point of view, but also allows us to better understand the history of its speakers. Language reconstruction also provides insights about ancient cultures, societies,...

DISCOVERING THE ORIGINS OF THE ROMA PRESENCE IN ITALY

Author: Maura Madeddu

The early days of the first Roma groups in Italy are, unfortunately, scarcely documented, similarly to what happens for migratory flows directed towards the countries we today know as France, Germany, and Spain. All the few available sources rely on...

WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT ROMA IN ITALY BY LOOKING AT ITALIAN SURNAMES?

Author: Maura Madeddu

30. 6. 2025.

Unveiling the history of Roma people is a tough challenge for academics in every field: from history to sociology, from genetics to linguistics, understanding where Roma come from and when their migration started is still an open question that...

AN OVERVIEW OF THE 5th ECRI REPORT ON TURKEY

Author: Deniz Lal Seçgin

The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), a body of the Council of Europe, monitors and evaluates racism, discrimination, and intolerance across European countries. In its Fifth Report on Turkey, published in 2016, ECRI assesses...

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IN MEMORY OF ‘KRISTALLNACHT’ IN 1938

Autorica: Anaïs REFALO

Kristallnacht, also known as the Night of Broken Glass, was a violent anti-Jewish pogrom that took place during the night of 9th to 10th of November 1938. A pogrom is an attack accompanied by pillage and murder perpetrated against the Jewish...

INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY

Author: Adila Aghayeva

The Holocaust or Yom Hashoah (held on the 27th of Nisan according to the Jewish calendar) as Jews call this tragedy and despite the passing of years, its traces still linger on us. The XX century is marked by continuous wars and merciless genocides....