Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis by John Flint & Ryan Powell

Author:John Flint & Ryan Powell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030162221
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Phase 4: Contemporary Regulatory Opacity

Nevertheless, these legal developments introduced the fourth and current policy phase: the municipality has largely withdrawn its security monitoring presence and no longer funds most NGO activities. Its policy agenda claims that it is working to end the camps system and relocate families to mainstream housing (Roma Capitale 2017). So far, though, very few families have benefitted. An institutional presence is largely absent from camps, apart from police checks during which rules are enforced erratically and subjectively since regulations vary and are in many cases lacking. Residents no longer access most of the assistential services previously provided. This mirrors the initial phases of institutional neglect wherein sporadic and discretionary policing was the primary form of intervention. However, the current regulatory opacity occurs not only within informal camps but within those created by the municipality, exacerbating established power differentials within them by allowing residents with greater wealth and social capital more decision-making freedom than others (Daniele 2017). Indeed, informants refer to some more powerful families now informally taking over the allocation of housing and spatial organization in ways that reflect their personal and financial interests. New dimensions of informality are therefore emerging within the very spaces that formally aimed to ensure institutional regulation and control.

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