Contemporary Anti-Gypsyism in European Mass Media

This paper focuses on the contemporary phenomenon
of Anti-Gypsyism which diffused widely throughout social
representations of the so called “Gypsies”. In Europe and especially
in Italy, the media tends to reproduce racist stereotypes and
prejudices through a xenophobic depiction of this ethnic group, often
offering an ethnocentric point of view. From an anthropological
perspective, Roma people are a minority group facing diasporic
phenomena across Europe, produced by the host societies.

• E. Di Giovanni

• Roma people
• Anty-Gypsyism
• Ethnocentrism
• Mass Media.

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