Integration or marginalization? The failures of social policy for the Roma in Rome

Modern Italy

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 203-218

  Marinaro, Isabella Clough ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 32644481686     PISSN: 13532944     EISSN: 14699877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1353294032000131247     Document Type: Article

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