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The deportation of Roma migrants from France was subject of intense political debate in France and internationally in 2009 and 2010. After two fatal incidents, President of France Nicolas Sarkozy vowed in July 2010 to evict at least half of the 539 Roma squatting in land camps.
The first Roma came to France in 1418, to the town of Colmar. In 1419 more Romani arrived in Provence and Savoy. Nine years later the first Roma were recorded in Paris. In 1802 there was a determined campaign to clear Roma from the French Basque provinces.
In the summer of 2012, with mounting criticism of their deportation of Roma migrants, French key ministers met for emergency talks on the handling of an estimated 15,000 Roma living in camps across France. They proposed to lift restrictions on migrants (including Roma) from Bulgaria and Romania who were working in France. [146]
The Romani people, also referred to as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group that primarily lives in Europe. The Romani may have migrated from what is the modern Indian state of Rajasthan , [ 1 ] migrating to the northwest (the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent ) around 250 BC. [ 1 ]
Deportation of Roma migrants from France; E. Egyptians Act 1530; F. Feudum Acinganorum; G. ... (European Roma Rights Centre) v Immigration Officer at Prague Airport
The Dibrani case refers to the 'political turmoil' created in France [1] in October 2013 by the arrest during a field trip of an illegal immigrant Roma schoolgirl, Leonarda Dibrani (aged 15), and the following expulsion to Kosovo of her family and herself.
Nearly 200 Venezuelan immigrants to the U.S. were returned to their home country after being detained at Guantanamo Bay, in a flurry of flights that forged an unprecedented pathway for U.S ...
Pages in category "Romani in France" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Deportation of Roma migrants from France; Dibrani case; E.