8. Kali, une figure « autre » de la résistance à l’internement : Parcours d’une internée rom en France durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

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By focusing on a biographical entry, that of Kali, a Roma woman from the Demestre family, this article aims to highlight the administrative and police harassment of nomads during World War II. By following Kali between 1939 and 1943, from her arrest in Lunel (Hérault, France) to the concentration camp of Agnone (Italy), a particular moment of her life is remembered, that of her internment in Rieucros (Lozère). The memory has been preserved thanks to the pictorial, photographic, and written works of foreign women also interned in this camp. For these women, members of the Communist Party, Kali was “other.” An original perspective developed by this article allows us to broaden the notion of women’s resistance in an internment camp: through her ways of being, Kali offered the women an image of resistance to internment that modified their own relationship to the “authorities,” whether the administration or its political party, and enabled them to express what they themselves found difficult to say because trapped in a hierarchy between the “politicians” and the “other” women.