Arab immigrant women in the public arena: squatting in houses in Rome as a practice and rhetoric of construction of citizenship

In 2009, 50 Italian and immigrants families squatted in an abandoned school in Rome, in which we see a great active involvement of Moroccan women. Adopting an agent-oriented approach, we analyse the squatted in house as achievement of political visibility in public spaces by migrant, many of them undocumented. The struggle for the house thus becomes an important moment in constructing a new subjectivity and a new idea of citizenship as a political of belonging, that allows us to reflect in what way the experience of squatting has redraws and has challenges the boundaries between public/private spheres, inclusion/exclusion, us/them.