Is begging a Roma cultural practice? Answers from the Italian legal system and anthropology.
Several Italian judges, including the members of the Supreme Court, have defined begging with children as a "Roma cultural practice". In response, the Italian Parliament enacted law no. 94/2009, which severely represses the practice. The article contests that begging is a Roma cultural practice and...
| Publicado en: | Romani Studies Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 31 - 62 |
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