The camps are quickly taken over by criminal gangs, that act as intermediaries between the local authorities and the community they "represent" and repress. Corruption and blackmail are endemic. The ideology behind the camps does nothing to take into account the ethnic and religious strife between various Rom populations. Bureaucracy is complicated and ineffectual thus favouring inroads for criminal organizations such as the camorra. It's a permanent state of alienation.
A policy of dismantling the camps and facilitating the Rom in finding cheap housing would go a long way in resolving the problem. This is practically impossible since cheap housing, as soon as it goes up, is quickly taken over by organized crime.
And as usual, B is all talk and no cattle... Europeans think a hundred miles is a long way. Americans think a hundred years is a long time.
The illegal immigrants, especially the Rom, rely on the camorra for "protection" or "private ordering." They are used as a sub-proletariat work force. They are used for illegal dumping or any "job" that is highly dangerous for their health so long as they are guaranteed to be left alone.
Whether camps are authorized or illegal makes little difference. It's organized crime that keeps order in both cases. And organized crime could just as well be behind some of the arson attacks against the Rom. There is nothing contradictory in this behaviour for the camorra's prime interest is to assert and advantage its authority by any means.
The recent attacks against the Rom have been favoured by the zeitgeist blown in by the far right win. Paradoxically, it is a leghista the minister of the Interior who must do something to put out the fire they stocked with their irresponsible rhetoric.
A good study on the problem of private ordering and organized crime isThe Dark Side of Private Ordering: An Institutional and Empirical Analysis of Organized Crime by Milhaupt and West.
