An enclosure fenced off with corrugated steel sheets – home to four hundred Roma people – has become a symbol of environmental disaster in Campania. A temporary camp built by the Municipality of Giugliano at a cost of about four hundred thousand euro. Two inches of gravel and asphalt separate a human settlement from land that has been a dumping ground for all sorts of legal and illegal waste over the years. The camp's inhabitants are worried; they fear for the health of their children. For thirty years they have been settled in the hinterland north of Naples, and yet there has been no improvement in living conditions or the acquisition of rights.
