The sedentarisation of Roma in the Soviet Union after 1956: A case study from the former Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Drawing on interviews with people who experienced sedentarisation - on participant observation and on conversations in Romani communities as well as statistical data and official documents - I analyse the transition to sedentary life among Roma in the former Belarussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Th...
| Published in: | Romani Studies Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 23 - 52 |
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2015
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