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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There is a long history of the UK government failing to adequately provide for Gypsy and Traveller communities’ needs.
Many young people today know little about the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust, and even less about the murder of Romani communities.
Holocaust scholars long relied on documents and survivor testimonies to help reconstruct the history of that tragic event. Now, they’re turning to wordless witnesses to learn more: pictures.
There’s a long history of communities speaking Romany in the UK, so it’s hardly surprising that some of its words have found their way into everyday English.
Romani children across Europe are overrepresented in institutional care. Research shows widely held prejudical views and structural inequality is to blame.
The US has a long history of forced sterilization campaigns that were driven by the bogus ‘science’ of eugenics, racism and sexism.
Attacking Gypsies and Travellers is an easy win for politicians, thanks to centuries of prejudice cultured by the state and the media.
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.
Freedom, social progress and tolerance are Norwegian values, but not everyone there gets to enjoy them equally.
An influx of people seeking shelter from conflict has sharpened attitudes against groups which have been in Europe for centuries.
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.
Gypsies, tinkers, pikeys, travellers – everyone knows the terms, not to mention the even more derogatory ones. The Roma and Sinti people have been the subject of prejudice and discrimination in Europe…
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