Tired of reading soap opera subtitles to his wife while watching TV, Costel Pitigoi gave her an order: Learn to read them yourself. So Maria Pitigoi joined 29 other women in this town’s Gypsy enclave ...

American philanthropist George Soros on Thursday called for the integration of Gypsies in Eastern Europe, saying it could prevent an outbreak of unrest similar to the recent rioting in France. Soros, ...

In this article, the terms “Gypsies” and “Roma” are used interchangeably, but there are differences. “Roma,” the preferred term internationally, is not actually as inclusive, as there are some Gypsy ...

Pope Benedict XVI will welcome groups of European gypsies to the Vatican this Saturday. The delegation, which will include members the Roma, Sinti, Manouches, Kale, Yenish and Travellers communities ...

The French government's decision to deport Roma immigrants back to Romania and Bulgaria has rankled some of France's European neighbors. Ben Barnier of Global Post reports on the controversial ...

CHOISY-LE-ROI, France - At age 8, Abel Bot is starting school a bit late. The past few weeks have been a crash course in how to be a schoolboy: how to hold a pencil, to raise a hand in class, to ...

PLOVDIV, Bulgaria — A small boy shimmies up a utility pole, gingerly grabs an insulated cable pulsing with high voltage and connects it to his home: a cube of corrugated iron sheets in Bulgaria’s ...

This is the first documentary film that tells the forgotten story of the annihilation of the Gypsies by the Nazis and their allies from one end to the other of Europe. With interviews of the survivors ...

This city is full of stark, Soviet-era housing blocks, and the grimmest among them — gray towers of one-room apartments with communal bathrooms and no hot water — are given over to the Roma population ...

When Alexandre Dumas toured Spain in 1846, he indulged in what had become a ritual for romantics. Entering the Andalusian city of Granada, the French writer and his coterie of arty companions found a ...

This article proposes a model that provides a tool to gauge the preparedness of ethnic and other groups for political mobilization. It argues that successful ethnic mobilization requires a ...