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Roma are worried they may not meet all the requirements necessary to secure ‘settled status’ in the UK after Brexit.
New research among well-off Roma families in Romania shows how widespread prejudice against them is.
Some 20,000 Sinti and Roma died in Auschwitz alone.
Racist stigmatisation of Roma as socially ‘unadaptable’ has a long history across Europe.
The experiences of a migrant district in Scotland’s biggest city could be the shape of things to come.
An influx of people seeking shelter from conflict has sharpened attitudes against groups which have been in Europe for centuries.
Fleeing from persecution is not the only reason migrants leave their home countries.
Research shows that Roma and other EU migrants don’t come to the UK for state benefits.
Thanks to new government planning rules, Gypsy and Traveller communities could lose their legal ethnic status if they stop travelling.
George Soros has joined forces with the Council of Europe in an initiative aiming to help Roma. But it risks marginalising them even further.
The only way to understand the Roma is to read their literature – it allows the authors to speak for themselves, and can change your perceptions.
Italy has been experiencing a resurgence of xenophobia recently. Migrants and Roma have been violently attacked by gangs, and people claiming to be “ordinary citizens” have organised marches in racially…
Since the accession of Central European countries to the European Union (EU), threats to their Roma communities have escalated dangerously. This is evident in anti-Roma rallies, random violent attacks…
Those who follow the situation of Europe’s Roma know that there is never a “dull” week in which we don’t hear of accusations, abuse, or even violence against them. Most events do not grab major headlines…
Brace yourself for more dire warnings about how Britain will be flooded next year by hordes of migrants from Bulgaria and Romania. This week’s story in The Times quotes figures from the Office for National…
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…
Many papers are full of the latest population figures suggesting that the number of Romanians and Bulgarians arriving in the UK to work has increased by a third over the past year. This is almost universally…
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Professor of Linguistics, University of Manchester
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Professor of Housing and Communities, University of Huddersfield
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Instructor and Director of the Roma Program, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
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Reader in International Law and Human Rights, University of Liverpool
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Doctoral Researcher in Law, Durham University
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Health, Swansea University
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Research Fellow, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Bristol
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PhD Candidate, Durham University
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Reader and Principal Lecturer in Media and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University
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Lecturer, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Assistant Professor, Sociology, Concordia University
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Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Université de Limoges
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Senior Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History, University of Liverpool