The Roma are often approached by researchers and public opinion as a group whose ethnic identity is "obvious." As their way of life is considered as completely different from the groups surrounding them, any image of the non-gypsies about the gypsies is built in order to account for this radical difference. And this difference is naturalised and essentialised by the majority. But the case analysed in the present study - the gypsies in Toflea - is an attempt at deconstructing this naturalised difference by examining the strategies of identity construction and assertion: identity practices and...