https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Europe-Is-Afraid-of-Its-Roma https://booksandideas.net/Europe-Is-Afraid-of-Its-Roma 2010-12-10T15:46:07Z text/html en Jean-Baptiste Duez International Carousel poverty Europe deportations Romani <span class="caps">FMSH</span> <p>Since the 1990s and the collapse of the Communist bloc, thousands of “Roma” have left Eastern Europe. Their arrival in the west, particularly France and Italy, has provoked strong negative reactions – and not only on account of their poverty and way of life. Today, closely linked to the conditions of entry and stay of foreigners, the ‘Roma' question is at the centre of European and national politics.</p>