The Gypsy 'menace' : populism and the new anti-Gypsy politics / Michael Stewart (editor).

"This publication was published with the support of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR)"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-376) and index.

This title resets the agenda for thinking about Europe's largest minority, analysing not only the challenges a liberal, tolerant politics confronts but also suggesting ways of acting against the new xenophobia.

Part 1. Anti-Gypsyism : New Contours of Social and Political Exclusions -- Populism, Roma and the European Politics of Cultural Difference / Michael Stewart -- Abusive Language and Discriminatory Measures in Hungarian Local Policy / Janos Zolnay -- Integralist Narratives and Redemptive Anti-Gypsy Politics in Bulgaria / Georgia Efremova -- Social Exclusion of the Roma and the Czech Society / Karel CCada -- Left-Wing Progress? : Neo-Nationalism and the Case of Romany Migrants in Italy / Giovanni Picker -- Underclass Gypsies : An Historical Approach on Categorisation and Exclusion in France in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Ilsen About -- Part 2. From Local Conflicts to Reshapings of the Social Imaginary -- Changes in the Way the Gypsies in a Northern Hungarian Village are Distinguished in Social Life / Kata Horvath with Cecelia Kovai -- Anti-Gypsyism and the Extreme-Right in the Czech Republic 2008/2011 / Gwendolyn Albert -- Spaces of Hate, Places of Hope : The Romanian Roma in Belfast / Colin Clark and Gareth Rice -- Segregation and Ethnic Conflicts in Romania : Getting Beyond the Model of "The Last Drop" / Stefania Toma -- Part 3. Combating Extremism -- Cucumbers Fighting Migrations : The Contribution of Ngos to the Perception of Temporary Romany Migrations from Hostice-Gesztete/Slovakia / Stefan Benedik, Wolfgang Goderle and Barbara Tiefenbacher -- Possible Responses to the Sweep of Right-Wing Forces and Anti-Gypsyism in Hungary / Lidia Balogh -- Strategies for Combating Right-Wing Populism and Racism : Steps Towards a Pluralist and Humane Europe / Britta Schellenberg -- Hidden Potentials in "Naming the Gypsy" : The Transformation of the Gypsy-Hungarian Distinction / Cecelia Kovai -- Dogmatism, Hypocrisy and the Inadequacy of Legal and Social Responses Combating Hate Crimes and Extremism : The CEE Experience / Andres L. Pap.