Roma, minority, integration

“All minorities are “different”, and all are rejected”, was in 1944 a resume on the pretest of a questionnaire for the empirical Studies in Prejudice of one of the researchers on anti-Semitism and racism of the exiled Institute of Social Research in the United States.1 The statement holds still in today’s 21. Century Europe especially for the Roma who traditionally, and in every Western European survey of the last decades, bring up the rear of the least liked minority.