Thank you for the links. I didn’t take your comment as if you were against deportation of illegal immigrants... I do understand the concerns about them targeting one specific group while not cracking down on others. I’m also guessing that the numbers are so large because of the families wanting to remain together — for instance the Dad or Mom gets caught doing something wrong, but unlike here (for instance) it’s not just Mom or Dad getting deported... I’m sure they are insisting that the French government “provide passage” for the whole family - not just the individuals being “busted”. Of course this is all speculation on my part...
Thanks again for the links. This particular society is not one I know that much about (except for the obvious stereotypes and such).
“Thanks again for the links. This particular society is not one I know that much about (except for the obvious stereotypes and such).”
Ditto - on my part too, until this thread caused me to go search for some greater understanding.
The history, and the length of it - centuries, and the result of it:
(EU “citizen” to Gypsy: You are not “part of us” and so you cannot be “part of us”; Gypsy to EU citizen: You have always rejected me, and you will always reject me, so I don’t want to be your “citizen”)
seems like it would be a very difficult social and political catch-22 to change; for both sides.
I am guessing that one of the easiest ways it has changed, throughout the centuries, maybe, is when a Gypsy married an “outsider”, left the Gypsy clan, family and social life and that Gypsies children became part of “regular” society.