Romani Gypsies and Irish and Scottish Travellers have made and immense contribution to our shared traditional music heritage in Britain and Ireland.
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The death of Stanislav Tomáš in the Czech Republic has been compared to the murder of George Floyd.
Discrimination and stigma towards Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities make them uniquely at risk of COVID-19, but we often lack the data needed to turn that around.
Since March 2019, 25 attacks against Roma people have taken place, especially after false rumours of child abductions. Why do such negative stereotypes spread and what social mechanisms do they trigger?
There is a long, dishonourable history of detrimental policy going back to the 15th century.
A group of performers is using music and dance to highlight inequality, austerity and racism in Spain.
George Soros has joined forces with the Council of Europe in an initiative aiming to help Roma. But it risks marginalising them even further.
Two families in Ireland will have spent last weekend trying to forget the drama that engulfed their lives last week. Garda officers arrived on their doorsteps and took away young children on the spurious…
It was inevitable, after the publicity surrounding the BBC’s recent Crimewatch appeal, that the Madeleine McCann story would regain currency. Speculation about the identity of her abductor has of course…
Once again Roma people are in the news and, as ever, they are the focus of prejudice and vilification. The most recent story surrounds alleged child abduction in Greece, following a raid on a Roma encampment…
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Professor of Housing and Communities, University of Huddersfield
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Professor of Linguistics, University of Manchester
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Cambridge
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Reader in International Law and Human Rights, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Society & Social Welfare and Director of the Centre for Social Work and Social Policy, Bournemouth University
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Co-Researcher on Gypsy and Traveller Voices in Music Archives, University of East Anglia
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Assistant Professor in Education, University of Nottingham
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Research Associate of Ethnomusicology, University of Sheffield
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Associate professor, Bournemouth University
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Sociologue, Doyen de l'Ecole Urbaine de Sciences Po, chercheur au Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée., Sciences Po
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Professor of Cultural Politics, University of East Anglia
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Assistant Professor in Race, Decoloniality and Intersectionality, University of Amsterdam