Roma people, education, culture, history, Europe, research

The new "Roma" Series edited by Ian Hancock and Hristo Kyuchukov is going to include books and collection of scientific articles, historical documents, ethnographic materials dealing with Roma in Europe and elsewhere. This is the first scientific series which is going to publish also books in Romani language, and in this way it will help the process of codification of Romani langue worldwide. The first book in this series edited by Hristo Kyuchukov, entitled "Linguistic, Educational and Cultural issues of Roma" includes articles in the field of Romani linguistics, education of Roma children, ethnology, antigypsyism as well as article written in Romani and poetry in English written by Roma author. The contents of the book is the following: Ian Hancock "Romance vs. Reality: popular notions of the Gypsy"; Theresa Catalano "Romanies versus the mafia: ?us? and ?them? in Italian crime reports"; Dagmar Kopcanova "Challenges in Roma Children Education: Help of Teacher?s Assistant" etc.