LA MINORÍA GITANA EN EL SIGLO XVII: REPRESIÓN, DISCRIMINACIÓN LEGAL E INTENTOS DE ASENTAMIENTO E INTEGRACIÓN

Abstract

The gypsy minority since coming to the Peninsula in the lower Middle organize as a group are apart, with their language, traditions and lifestyle. The arrangements for their integration had ever essentially a character repressor and did not give the expected results. Such measures, culminating with Reyes Catolicos, continued without positive results during the sixteenth century, to extend the XVII with a series of tough pragmatic Interests in times of Charles II, after unsuccessful efforts deployed by integrators Philip IV and his collaborators. Unfairly being considered criminals by definition, however, found partially integrated into the social context, they will be fixed residence in a specific location and under very restrictive, banned freedom of movement, association, dealing in livestock, trade and economic activities other than the agriculture, and even vedandoles their language, clothes and ancestral customs. All under the most severe punishment.