Roma
The Roma, Europe’s largest minority, have endured centuries of discrimination, from restrictions on their traditional trades to the trauma of genocide. In Romania, where a significant part of the community lives, their place remains both deeply rooted and deeply contested.
Today, change is slowly taking shape: a political party defends their interests in local and national arenas, and NGOs work to rehouse the poorest families in dignified conditions. Yet beyond these shifts lies a more intimate question — what does it mean to be Roma in Romania today, to inhabit a land marked by both belonging and exclusion, and to carry an identity shaped by the paradox of being a nation without a territory?
