Social Invisibility and Discrimination of Roma People in Italy and Brazil

Abstract: In everyday debates on topics such as cultural differences, it seems relevant to analyze not only institutional conversations or speeches, but also mass-media communications. The way the media portray social events contributes to the construction of our categories of explanation of the world. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the representations of ‘gypsies’ in news articles published in some of the most important national newspapers in Italy and Brazil. Results show that Italian news focuses on the living conditions of Roma people, stereotypes, crimes suffered or attributed to them, and political and cultural debates on the Roma question in Italian cities. Brazilian news indicated themes associated with Roma in the context of artistic-cultural productions (films, soap operas, songs, dances and opera and theatre plays), mentioned with other Brazilian traditional peoples and communities, as well as the death of gypsies during the Nazi period. The paper discusses the pr.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/6453

Angaben zum Objekt

• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Social Invisibility and Discrimination of Roma People in Italy and Brazil ; volume:11 ; number:1 ; day:23 ; month:03 ; year:2023 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 11, Heft 1 (23.03.2023)

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Urheber: Melotti, Giannino ; Bonomo, Mariana ; Brasil, Julia Alves ; Villano, Paola

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.6453
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023041505103377672889
• Rechteinformation: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 14.08.2025, 11:02 MESZ