Roma/Gypsies: A European Minority
1 October 1995
A4, 40pp, ISBN 1 897693 16 8
The Roma/Gypsy community has been persecuted in Europe throughout history, whether through banishment, Roma/Gypsy hunts or the Roma/Gypsy Holocaust of the twentieth century. Roma/Gypsies: A European Minority charts the course of these events on the Roma/Gypsy consciousness and examines current-day policies of exclusion, containment and assimilation whilst also considering the position of Roma/Gypsy communities in Eastern and Central Europe in the wake of the fall of communism.
The authors Jean-Pierre Liégeois and Nicolae Gheorghe, renowned experts on this subject, discuss European and international institutions’ responses to the growing sense of shared identity that exists among Roma/Gypsy people, highlighting the achievements that have been made to date and outlining the many issues still to be resolved.
To this end, Roma/Gypsies: A European Minority concludes with a set of recommendations concerning identity; non-discrimination; equality; asylum; participation; education and self-designation, argeing that a European-wide integrated approach to these issues is long overdue.
