But their story is far from monolithic; Roma, or the Romani people, is an umbrella term for various groups identified as Roma, Gitanos, Sinti, Ciganos, and Romanichals located across the world.

The so-called “stateless people,” who originally migrated from northern India to Europe in the 14th century, are today officially referred to as “Roma” and “Travellers,” two umbrella terms adopted by ...

The NYTimes shines a light on the persistence of discrimination in France against the Roma people, also known as gypsies, who are there illegally. Excerpt: The complexity and tragedy of the ...

Research determines that she is descended from multiple generations of musicians, and from the Sinti people, a subgroup of the Romani people. The Roma, or Romani people were often denigrated as ...

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In all, about a hundred Romani mansions have sprung up in an otherwise dour farm town of 5,000 people some 50 miles southwest of the capital, Bucharest. About a third of the citizenry is Roma ...

Here is a closer look at the status of the Roma community of Poland today. The Romani people, also known as the Roma, are an ethnic minority group in Poland. The Roma people include multiple subgroups ...

The appearance by several Romani men at a press conference with Czech Labor and Social Affairs Minister Marian Jurečka to ...

“Come out, Roma, we’ll make soap out of you,” they yelled, according to several people who were nearby at the time. Once a positive example of integration of the ethnic Roma community in ...

Of course there are many threads here, because I'm talking about the Roma people who are everywhere, crossing all borders. Next to the Polish Pavilion, there’s the Romanian pavilion, as well as the ...

Before delivering his team's genetic findings, the host of the PBS series began to describe the Roma ethnic group. "They’re traditionally itinerant people who lived all over Europe for centuries ...