Will Guy Livres

."..109 photographs taken between 1962 and 1971 in what was, at the time, Czechoslovakia (Bohemia, Moravia, and Slovakia), Romania, Hungary, France, and Spain"--Front jacket flap.

The Roma (or gypsies) of Central and Eastern Europe have recently emerged from virtual obscurity into the glare of the international media as large numbers sought asylum in the West. This important new study by leading researchers examines the contemporary predicament of Roma in the countries of the former Communist bloc, where the vast majority still live, and includes the first detailed assessment of the significance of the Fifth World Romani Contress in Prague at which delegates voted for the establishment of a Romani nation, a nation without a country.

The disappointing results of over two decades of activism in the supposedly more liberal climate of post- Communist democracies prompted three renowned experts to exchange their views, sometimes contradicting one another, about the situation of Roma in Eastern Europe.

The mass migration of Roma "from East to West," that is, their movement from Central and Eastern Europe into Western countries, became an international political problem in the late 1990s. This book, the result of cooperation by an international research network with members from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Great Britain, provides a collection of essays that attempt to identify the current situation and trends in migration in these areas. The contributions provide a brief historical account of Roma migration in the modern history of the region, and assess the scale and types of migration in individual countries, and the direction of migration movements and their causes. It is clear that features of migration strategies differ between different Roma groups in post-communist Europe, but the way in which they are received in the west is usually the same.

"Der vom europäischen Zentrum für Roma-Rechte und dem Roma-Bildungsfonds ausgearbeitete Bericht über die Verbesserung der Instrumente zur sozialen Eingliederung und Nichtdiskriminierung von Roma in der EU untersucht Praktiken und Maßnahmen in EU-Mitgliedstaaten, die zur Eingliederung von Roma beigetragen haben. Außerdem steht eine Kurzfassung dieses Berichts (ISBN 978-92-79-17646-3) in elektronischer Form zur Verfügung."--Herausgeber.