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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 Basque Country, the Erromintxela people are assimilated descendants of a 15th-century wave of Kalderash Roma, who entered the Basque Country via France. [379] Both ethnically, linguistically, and culturally, they are distinct from the Caló -speaking Romani people in Spain and the Cascarot Romani people of the Northern Basque Country . [ 379 ]
In 2012, the state recorded 16,399 people living in 391 slums across France. Of these, 82% were Romanian and 6% Bulgarian. [5] In consequence, East European migrants who squat are typically regarded as Roma migrants, whether or not they are actually Romani. [7] Nomadic people, who may or may not be Romani, are termed 'travellers' ("Gens du ...
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The population of ethnic Khmers in France is estimated to be about 80,000 as of 2020, making the community one of the largest in the Cambodian diaspora. [4] The Cambodian population in France has had a presence in the country dating to well before the Vietnam War and subsequent Indochina refugee crisis, unlike counterpart communities in North America and Australia.
Roma, concentrated in Central and Eastern Europe, but present throughout the continent. Sinti, concentrated in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy. Kalderash, concentrated in Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary. Calé, concentrated in Spain, but also in Portugal (see Romani people in Portugal) and southern France.
The Romani people have long been a part of the collective mythology of the West, where they frequently were (and still are) depicted as outsiders, aliens, and a threat. For centuries, they were enslaved in Eastern Europe and they were also hunted in Western Europe: the Porajmos, Hitler's attempt to commit genocide against the Romani people, was one violent link in a chain of persecution that ...