Roma migrants in Germany carry a sign that reads "ALL ROMA STAY HERE!" and "STOP THE DEPORTATIONS!" during a protest.
Headlines like "Fear, loathing and prejudice in Blunkett's back yard", "Smirking Roma migrants boast: We get FIVE TIMES more cash in Benefits Britain", and "Roma in Sheffield: 'When it goes off, it will be like an atom bomb here'".
Maybe not, but for Roma it may be the only choice they have.West Europeans also tend to believe that Roma migrants are responsible for an epidemic of pickpocketing, shoplifting, mugging and worse.
In western Europe Roma migrants have faced firebomb attacks in Italy, pogroms in Belfast and forcible evictions in Greece.This year marks the halfway point of Europe's "Decade of Roma Inclusion", launched in 2005 at a riverside hotel in Budapest.
It was people like Rees whom Sheffield MP David Blunkett no doubt had in mind when he gave an interview this week in which he warned that tensions between local people and Slovakian Roma migrants in this part of his constituency could escalate into rioting unless action was taken to improve integration.
Around 20,000 Roma migrants were evicted from camps in France last year, according to the Human Rights League, a charity.Despite all those dialects, Romani also allows Roma of different nationalities to communicate.
This presentation seeks to examine the views of the electorate on minorities (Roma, Gypsy, and migrant populations), the stance of parties, the political agenda, and the institutionalization of party systems in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.
Elena Rozzi, "Undocumented migrant and Roma children in Italy: between rights protection and control," in Jacqueline Bhabha, ed., Children without a state: a global human rights challenge (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011).
Roma Rights, Roma Wrongs.
For Sister Roma, that's Sister Roma.
