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De Sario, Corradi, Ruiz, Capussotti
Notes
1. The term can be translated as “Gypsy camps”. Some of them are “authorized”,
meaning that they are legally recognized and organized by the local
authorities, while others are unauthorized, meaning that a group of families
has decided to settle there without asking permission. The authorized camps
usually have running water and electricity and are supervised by a watchman.
The houses are mainly made of concrete, or of metal and wood, or are mobile
homes.
De Sario
1. Or of the Albanians according to the Romany, and vice-versa.
2. A definition of this “entity” constructed by the “bio-power” placed between
individual and society is in Foucault, 1997: 218 ff.
3. For material on this subject it is necessary to begin with H. Arendt, The
Decline of the Nation-State and the End of the Rights of Man, 1999 (1958),
and in particular Ch. IX.
4. On the many “Albanians” of Albania and Kosovo literally created by speeches
on immigration and war, see Dal Lago, 1999.
5. Ethno-national or cultural subjectivities of this kind are formed and reestablished
with each generation, and their continued existence is therefore
stimulated by processes occurring at a global scale or by events that cause
their violent resurgence, see Janigro, (1993), 1999 and furthermore Ranzato,
1994.
6. Belonging to the Hascalje group.
7. If the image of the “Serbian official”, and of the long arm of the Belgrade
government developed among the Albanians, what happened in the minds of
the Serbian civilians?
8. Other possible courses of action in the work conflict, such as collaborating
with the Serbs in order to keep working, were either not willingly brought up
in the accounts, or provoked strong discomfort to both Albanian and Roma
interviewees.
Corradi
1. Many refugees have thoughts of suicide, as indicated by ongoing studies,
e.g. Kociian-Hercigonia and Friedman.
Capussotti
Psychosocial Notebook, Volume 2, October 2001
1. See Vattimo et al., 1990; Boyarin, 1994; Passerini, 2002.
2. For a comparison with the war in Bosnia and Croatia see: Feldman, Prica and
Senjkovic (Eds) 1993; Gilliland, Spoliar-Vrzina and Rudan, 1995; Huseby-
Darvas Eva, 1995.
3. For a more in-depth analysis of these aspects see Nicola Mai’s article in this
volume.
4. I thank Luisa Passerini for helping me to formulate this specific point.
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