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The ancient hatred of Roma minorities is now being compounded in Europe by a post-austerity fear of the destitute ‘scrounger’. Romani communities, many consisting of those forced by market economics and far-right politics to flee westwards from former ‘eastern bloc’ countries, facilitated in the latter 2000s by the free movement enabled by accession to the EU, now find themselves the victims of open hostility to ‘foreigners’ and state-sponsored removal. The author examines the variations of anti-Roma prejudice and state strategies in southern, eastern and western Europe, which send the Roma from pillar to post.
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