A recent article in the Toronto Star about the first generation of Roma children in the Toronto school system, Louise Brown's "Roma children perplex local educators", made me think.

They are Europe's Least Wanted - reviled for their unorthodox ways, hounded by white supremacists. Now the sudden arrival of Roma "gypsies" in Ontario has teachers ( Read more... )

The Canadian Press' Terry Pedwell describes how, even though Roman in Hungary are migrating to Canada by claiming refugee status like their co-ethnics in the Czech Republic, Canada's not imposing visa restrictions on Hungary. (Yet?)

The number of refugee claims by asylum-seekers from Hungary has rocketed to nearly 1,400 so far this year - almost ( Read more... )

It's unsurprising that, as Inter Press Service's Julio Godoy notes, "Never again" seems to mean "Never again will Jews by killed by Germany and its allies".

A ceremony at Auschwitz Sunday to commemorate the half a million Sinti and Roma killed by the Nazis became a reminder of the threats these people continue to face across Europe ( Read more... )

The recent decision of the Canadian government to require visa of visitors from Mexico and the Czech Republic, on the grounds that these countries produce too many refugees, has not be welcomed at all by the Czechs and Mexicans.

The Czech Republic's ambassador to Canada will fly out of the country this afternoon partly in protest and partly to ( Read more... )

I can't recommend highly enough said post ( "The Endless Journey") examining the Roma as a European (read Western) diaspora that, unlike better-known and better-liked diasporas luike the Jewish and the Armenian, constructs its lifeworld on principles rather distinct from those of its neighbours.