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Panel Discussion: Roma Migrations, Stories from Italy and the USA

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

Romani people – Roma – have been migrating west for hundreds of years. The most recent wave of mass migrations from Central and Eastern Europe began in the 1970s and increased in the 1990s after the fall of the Communist regimes there. The situation of migrant Roma in Italy, whose number is estimated at around 75,000, has been particularly difficult,…