A collection of essays on a wide range of aspects of the Roma communities, cultures, social and political conditions across Europe. The scholarly field of Romany studies is trapped in a unique position in Europe. For most of the last century, scholarly study of Roma has treated them as paragons of a lost world and not as citizens of modern nation-states. Today the field is hemmed in by two different power fields the emotionally understandable, though intellectually debilitating, concern to turn the plight of the Roma into a matter of human rights and the difficulty that academics experience...