Entre organización social y políticas públicas : Pautas residenciales de familias rumanas romaníes en Granada

• Main Authors: Stefano Piemontese, Giuseppe Beluschi-Fabeni
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade do Porto 2014-01-01
• Series: Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
• Subjects: housing policies; Roma migration; social services
• Online Access: http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/12949.pdf

This article focuses on the patterns of access to housing among Romanian Roma in the city of Granada between 2001 and 2011. It analyses how these patterns result from the interaction between the strategies and the needs of each family network, and the ways in which public authorities manage those benefits that, at least ideally, aim to ensure the right to housing. The main conclusion is that welfare and housing-related projects are more effective when they move from a deep knowledge of the socio-cultural characteristics of their beneficiaries, as well as when they consider their housing patterns as expressions of social needs.