Roma Migration in Europe: Case Studies

The mass migration of Roma "from East to West" i. e. their movement from Central and Eastern Europe into Western countries, became an international political problem in the later 1990s. The publication, which is the result of co-operation by an international research network with members from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Great Britain, offers a mosaic of 10 specialist articles. These provide a brief historical account of Roma migration in the modern history of the region, and assess the scale and types of migration in individual countries, the direction of migration movements and their causes. It is clear that features of migration strategies differ between different Roma groups in post-communist Europe, but the way in which they are received in the west is usually the same.