Indicator history

Practical obstacles, evidence of problems and diffential enrollement rates are all present concerning Roma and Sinti people. The main obstacle for a part of the Roma communities is the housing marginality and the continuing evictions that menace people living in “nomad camps”. For this reason the majority of children living in the “nomad camps” are threatened of exclusion from their specific school cycle (in most cases primary and secondary school). Roma and Sinti are de facto absent from high schools and universities. The italian school system is unprepared to receive the Roma and Sinti diversity and to promote successful paths of  school integration. Ther are not legal obstacles to integration of Roma/Sinti children in the school system, but the deprived living conditions and residential marginality play a negative role.