Moreover, such denial of #Roma people’s rights is similarly visible across Europe, where racialised exclusion increasingly takes the form of legislation, policy, or administrative order.

This is not merely a legal failure but a moral abandonment – a betrayal of the European Union’s foundational promise that citizenship and rights cannot depend on local or racialised boundaries.

The newly adopted #Hungary’s 2025 Act on the Protection of Local Identity straightforwardly normalises racial exclusion at the local level under the guise of safeguarding “heritage” and “community values,” and directly empowers local governments to determine who may belong within their borders.

Amid numerous global catastrophes, a quieter crisis at home is strikingly overlooked: a direct attack on equality and, effectively, the denial of #Roma people’s rights, their freedom of movement, and dignity as European citizens.

🙏 Thank you to all contributors—authors, reviewers, editors, and partner organizations—who made this issue possible.

#criticalromanistudies

🎨 Cover image
The Structure of Antigypsyism by Luna De Rosa

🤝 Supporting organizations
Romani Studies Program at Central European University
European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC)
Intercultural Institute of Timișoara

· Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka · Dezso Mate · Iulius Rostas · Diana Aburas · Sanni Matleena Lindroos · Rufat Demirov · André Raatzsch · Calin Rus · Ismael Cortés Gómez · Carmen Cañete Quesada

📚 Authors include
Rafael Buhigas Jiménez · Lesia Pahulich · Gaëtan Cognard · Nora Tyeklar · Martina Boykova Drobenova · Ognyan Isaev · Stefania Cotei · Camilla Salvatore · Adrian-Nicolae Furtună · Eddie Bruce-Jones · Dóra Bogárdi

📖 Editors
Dezso Mate · Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka · Iulius Rostas · Călin Rus

Deconstructing antigypsyism and affirming Romani contributions to European cultural heritage and academic narratives are essential steps toward a dignified collective memory.

This issue interrogates the mechanisms through which antigypsyism has shaped knowledge production and critiques how Romani people have been placed at the margins—and remain so today.

📰 Critical Romani Studies is proud to announce the publication of Volume 8, Number 1, a thematic issue dedicated to exploring racism and its intersections with Romani Studies.

This country has always hated poor people and left them to struggle and suffer, and now—under this administration—it deems them all the more odious and “wasteful.”