And they work for the preservation of minority languages in Sweden, such as Sami and Romani.
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Anna Polakova, who heads Romani-language public broadcasting in Prague, says the claims are absurd.
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In the short term, the need is to provide work that the adult Romani population can do.
Individuals who do get on often dump their Romani heritage, and the baggage that goes with it.
The leader of the Central Council of Sinti and Roma in Germany, Romani Rose, was also at the ceremony.
Integrating Romani children into mainstream education is going to be hard, given a history of humiliation in the classroom.
The first part of the exhibition follows a winding route intended to echo the wandering and often difficult existence of the Romani people.
Many Romani parents believe their children should be earning, not learning.
Petra Gelbart, a Czech-born Romani musicologist, says a common experience among job applicants is that those speaking accentless Czech and with unremarkable surnames easily get interviews.
Bernard Kouchner, the foreign minister, who comes from the political left, has said that he almost quit over the Romani expulsions, and could now step down.
Making fresh connections and drawing on painting, literature, photography and music, the show charts how novelists, and then painters, were intrigued by the arrival of Romani people in Europe.
The contrast between the anonymous ordinariness of life in the Bronx and the ghettos and squatter camps that form European impressions of their Romani fellow-citizens could hardly be sharper.
Those figures are static or in some countries worsening: given the demography (Romani families are usually large), improving schooling is a matter of urgent European self-interest as well as of principle.
Of the generation of persons 13 to 17 years of age (our "adopted children"), 100% are "foreign-born minority:" one a brown-skinned Romani boy from Bulgaria and three boys and one girl from Ethiopia.
The Budapest-based European Roma Cultural Foundation described Stojka as an "outstanding Austrian Romani woman... and a key figure for the history, art and literature of Romani culture in Europe", reported Reuters news agency.
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