The present article discusses the history of a Roma community settled in Mazara del Vallo (Sicily). The experience of such community becomes a way to reflect on the role of informal practices in determining positive, albeit paradoxical, changes concerning people at the margins. The paper is...

This paper directs interest on country-specific labour market discrimination Roma may suffer in South East Europe. The study lies in the tradition of statistical Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis. We use microdata from UNDP’s 2004 survey of Roma minorities, and apply a Bayesian approach,...

Gypsies are historically and presently in a disadvantaged position in all countries where they reside. Using the censuses of 1977, 1992 and 2002, I provide an empirical decomposition across time of the inequality Gypsies suffer in Romania, home to a large and growing Gypsy community. Gypsies are...

Social robots applications are becoming more and more popular in our daily life. Advertising, in this case, apparel advertising, is an area that humans must deal with every day. RoMa is a social robot mannequin that has been designed and developed as a mobile robot for use in the field of...

We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic minority. Using original survey data we collected in Serbia, we investigate whether fertility differs between ethnically homogeneous and mixed neighbor- hoods. Our results show that...

This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South Eastern Europe to evaluate competing explanations for the poor performance of Roma in the labour market. The analysis seeks to identify the determinants of educational achievement, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma. LIML...

The present paper intends to be an incursion in the Romanian press by analyzing the articles about the Roma population from Romania or migrated abroad published in the review Revista 22, during the years 2009-2017. It is not about a very high number of articles, but the existent articles present...