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• Constructing New Political and Social Identities Roma (Gypsies) in Central Europe, by Richard M. Clewett, Jr.
  
• Towards a New Paradigm of the Nation: The Case of the Roma By Cara Feys, USA.
  
• Roma Refugees in the UK From the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaign.
  
• Migration of Romany: A Challenge for Western Countries By Peter Mulder.
  
• Enforced Apartheid - the Shame of Europe From Real News Online.
  
• The Roma of Kosovo The European Roma Rights Center.
  
• Traveller Visibility Group A Traveller-led development organisation based in Cork, Ireland.
  
• Gypsies: Tramps and Thieves? Conditions in Bulgaria, by Tom Giles, from the Spring 1995 issue of SLANT.
  
• 500 Years of Rejection By Puri Ruíz. From European Culture Digest reports how governments and local authorities may be partly responsible for the early deaths of a people that contributes hugely to Spanish society.
  
• What Are They Writing About Us Blacks? Roma and Race in Russia From the Anthropology of East Europe Review, Autumn 1995.
  
• The Misery of Law: The Rights of Roma in the Transcarpathian Region of Ukraine From the European Roma Rights Center.
  
• Turks, Pomaks and Roma in Bulgaria After 1989 By Lora Sorova, Hungary.
  
• Roma (Gypsy) Political Parties in Slovakia
  
• Terezín Files Reported by Eva Sobotková, from the hCa Roma Section seminar entitled "Citizenship and legislation in the light of the recent Roma exodus and the political situation in Central and Eastern Europe," 1998.
  
• Persecution of the Roma Gypsies By F. Wessely and M. Lastarria.
  
• Multicultural Welcome? The Czech Roma Refugees and their Flight to Canada By Gerald Kernerman and Barbara Falk, York University.
  
• Irish Travellers, Ireland's Minority Culture Ireland's largest minority, who struggle to find a place in society while maintaining their distinct culture.
  
• The Roma/Gypsies of Europe: A Persecuted People By the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, 1996.
  
• Gamaliel Talks Explore Romani Experience From the University of Wisconsin.
  
• Eli Frankhams' Speech From conference in Peterborough, UK called "Land, People and Freedom," an attempt to bring together the different protagonists involved in Traveller Rights and Welfare.
  
• Go West By Adam Burgess. Author looks behind the recent 'Gypsy invasion' from Eastern Europe, reproduced from LM Magazine.
  
• We are Roma and not Gypsies By Zana Russell, Canada.
  
• No Room for the Roma? Jeremy Corbyn MP outlines the plight of Roma refugees in the UK.
  
• Roma and the Treaty of Amsterdam: safe European home? By Tanja Koch-Baerman, 1999.
  
• Roma Refugees' Catch-22 Anti-Roma sentiment permeates Slovak society from top to bottom. The British Government has just introduced visa requirements for migrants from Slovakia but asylum applicants are never granted visas, November 1998.
  
• How many roads? By Donald Kenrick.
  
• Keep the Nazis Out of Dover! Anti-facist action in Dover, England protesting National Front activities against Roma asylum seekers in the UK.
  
• Lynching is Not a Crime From the European Roma Rights Center Newsletter, Spring 1998.
  
• Roma: The Outsiders From Radio Netherlands.
  
• Dealing with Hate, Racism, and Violence Should the Czech Republican Party be banned? By Jan Fábry in the New Presence, July 1997.
  
• Exile of the Kosovo Roma By Reska.
  
• Usti nad Labem (Czech Republic) [Radio Prague]
  
• Travellers Part of Our Diverse Society By Margaret Donaghy. Examination of a report how Travellers, like their Gypsy counterparts in mainland Europe, suffer from governmental discrimination and indifference to their suffering.
  
• NEIK's Mission: Protect the Gypsies of Hungary By David Bornstein.
  
• First Congress of Young Gypsies: Preventing the creation of ghettos
  
• Migration of Romanies to Canada and Britain: The Actual Situation By Peter Mulder, 1999.
  
• Social Violence and the Social Institutions Paper by Toma Tomov, addresses the issue of violence and social institutions involved in the catering for the public needs in the period of social change following the collapse of the totalitarian regimes in Eastern Europe with an emphasis on the Roma.
  
• Romani (Gypsy) Rights From the Patrin Web Journal.
  
• Czech Republic: A Deep Trauma The present frictions in Czech-Roma relations have complex and deep-seated causes, from the Central Europe Review.
  
• The What of Notre Dame? By Arthur Hu. "... it looks like Disney really dropped the political correctness ball on this one."
  
• Xenophobia in Modern Germany By Harry James Cargas, author and lecturer, from Ethnic Cleansing in Germany: A Symposium.
  
• Antigypsyism in the Political Culture of the Federal Republic of Germany:A Parallel with Antisemitism? by Gilad Margalit, from the SICSA, Israel.
  
• Last Stop Hruov: The Search for a Ghetto By Hana Cápová.
  
• The Consequences of Anti-Gypsy Racism in Europe By Ian Hancock.
  
• Needy Guests, Reluctant Hosts By Elzbieta M. Gozdziak. From the Anthropology of East Europe Review. The plight of Romanians in Poland, Roma (Gypsies) caught in the crossfire.
  
• Turning a Blind Eye to Racism Report of Roma rights in Bulgaria from Amnesty International.
  
• The Roma in Kosovo From Truth in Media Global Watch.
  
• Refugee Voices from Exile: So close, so absurd! Gypsy experience in Yugoslavia, from Refugees Magazine.
  
• An overview of Roma Issues: Governance Background, migrations, and identity, from the British Council, UK.
  
• The Destructiveness of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act Severe hardship for Gypsies and Travellers in the UK.
  
• We have hundreds of "symbolic" laws ... István Fenyvesi interviews István Haller, 1998.
  
• Long pursuit of racial purity Sweden's forced sterilisation policy, by Laurence Jourdan.
  
• The Gypsy Law Concerning the New Jersey state legislature's repeal of that state's "anti-Gypsy" law, from The Guide, March 1998.
  
• On the Road to Nowhere By Jake Bowers-Burbridge, UK.
  
• Memory and Experience: Anti-Roma Prejudice in Eastern Europe By Zoltan Barany, in East European Studies, July 1998.
  
• I*EARN Projects 1996/97 Various papers written by students of the Srobarova High School 1, Slovakia.
  
• Roma Women and the Spanish Criminal Justice System Project examines the overrepresentation of Roma women in Spanish prisons. Financed by Initiative Daphne, Task Force of the European Commission and directed by the Association LA KALLE of Madrid, in Spanish and English.
  
• The Holocaust Today By Fedor Gál, March 1997.
  
• The Life of Roma in the Czech Republic, Yesterday and Today From the Czech Center, New York.
  
• Romani Rights in Europe Hearing at Washington, D.C., presided by the Hon. Christopher H. Smith, July 21, 1998.
  
• Rights for the Romani Community From Black to Black, Issue 15, UK.
  
• The Marginalisation of Gypsies By Helen O'Nions. Examines the rationale behind 'anti-Gypsy' legislation and explores why attempts to assimilate Roma are destined to fail.
  
• The Right to Respect for Home and Family Life By Helen O'Nions. Examines a 'Gypsy case' challenging UK legislation.
  
• Tolerance in Slovakia by EMPO Considering the Romany Issue.
  
• Helping Self-Help Interview with András Bíró, Winner of the 1995 Alternative Nobel Prize.
  
• Selected Reporting on Romani Human Rights From the U.S. Department of State's Annual Country Reports on Human Rights for Calendar Year 1998.
  
• Roma Monarchist Organisation of Albania "As our brothers are fleeing the chaos in Kosovo, they are living as unwanted 'guests' in surrounding countries. It is only with a strong and independent Epirus that our people from all over the region will have a place to call home. A country in which we share equal status with all other citizens."
  
• Roma/Gypsies: A European Minority Edited by Jean-Pierre Ligeois and Nicholas Gheorge, from Minority Rights Group International.
  
• Romani in Slovakia By Klara Orgovanova for Slovakia.org.
  
• The Irish Traveller Movement A national network of organisations and individuals working within the Traveller commmunity in Ireland.
  
• HRW World Report 1999: Hungary: Human Rights Developments
  
• Roma and Forced Migration: An Annotated Bibliography Second Edition, 1998, from the Open Society Institute, Forced Migration Projects.
  
• Irish Travellers Fighting Back From the Spunk Library.
  
• Denial of Basic Rights: the Marginalisation of Romani Refugees in France By Alison Pickup, 1999.
  
• The ERRC in Croatia Field report by Savelina Danova and Rumyan Russinov, from Roma Rights, Summer 1998.
  
• The Gypsies of Kosovo By Paul Polansky.
  
• Bonafide or Bogus?: Roma Asylum Seekers from the Czech Republic By Helen O'Nions, 1999.
  
• Myth and Reality of the Pluralism, or Otherness as a Stigma By Fedor Gal, Czech Republic.
  
• Thorolf Raftos Prize for Human Rights Awarded in 1997 to the Romani people, represented by Ian F. Hancock. In Norwegian.
  
• Us Against Them From European Journalism Centre Publications: Reporting ethnic minorities and ethnic conflict - beyond good or evil.
  
• Hadareni Case Indictment The most widely publicised case of violence against Roma in Romania in the past decade.
  
• A Gypsy Awakening From The Economist.
  
• Roma Women and the Spanish Criminal System Around 25% of women prison inmates in Spain are Roma women, an overrepresentation 20 times greater than the general population. An analysis of this reality, and oriented towards promoting actions against a serious violation of human rights.
  
• You try it for a few days! The Roma and the gadje in the Czech Republic By Fedor Gál.
  
• Czech Government Tries to Infiltrate the International Romani Union From the Internet Center for Anti-Racism Europe.
  
• Slovaks vs. Czechs on Gypsies Roma in Slovakia.
  
• Travellers and the Built Environment By Steve Staines of Friends, Families and Travellers Support Group.
  
• Why the Roma? By Günter Grass. Feature Article from Index Online.
  
• Roma from Central and Eastern Europe Continue to Seek Asylum in the West From ERRC Roma Rights, 1999.
  
• The Case of Marcel Malik By Amanda Sebestyen.
  
• The Struggle for the Control of Identity By Ian Hancock.
  
• The Roma of Central and Eastern Europe From The State of the World's Refugees: A Humanitarian Agenda, a UNHCR publication.
  
• African American/Roma Exchange From the Newsletter of the East-West Program of the American Friends Service Committee.
  
• Transnational Organizations, Human Rights Regimes, and the Roma: The Cases of Hungary and the Czech Republic By Richard M. Clewett, Jr., 1999.
  
• Please Call Me Rom By Shani Rifati.
  
• Voice of Roma A non-profit and charitable organization dedicated to providing Roma with a voice in their communities as well as nationally and internationally.
  
• Abuses Against Serbs And Roma In The New Kosovo From Human Rights Watch, August 1999.
  
• Initiatives Concerning Gypsies From www.radicalparty.org.
  
• Romania Gypsy Leaders Go Through Generation Change From Central Europe Online.
  
• Done Romanies? East European Roma asylum seekers in UK.
  
• Roma Rights Litigation By Dimitrina Petrova, 1999.
  
• Law as an Instrument of Discrimination: Denying Citizenship to the Czech Roma By Jirina Siklova and Marta Miklusakova, 1998.