In the last few years the Roma have increasingly become the explicit target of rising rightwing populism and hate speech in various European countries. In this excellent book a broad array of authors study this unsettling trend in detail. They also search for explanations that are fully aware of the larger political context - including the unintended effects of European integration and the rise of identity politics. -- Peter Vermeersch, Professor of Political Science, and author of 'The Romani Movement: Minority Politics and Ethnic Mobilization in Contemporary Central Europe' Attitudes to Roma and Gypsies have changed dramatically in many EU countries over the past five or six years. The great merit of this book is not just its timely and perceptive analyses of the local and transnational forces causing this change, but also its proposals for challenging these new forms of ethnic hatred. This book shows just how urgent and important it is to find European wide solutions to the challenges that the Roma face today. It should be an invaluable resource for policy-makers and politicians alike. -- Dr Livia Jaroka, Member of the European Parliament This book is a crucial intervention, demonstrating how new forms of racism and social exclusion are taking shape in the wake of European Unification. The chapters, representing several scholarly disciplines and methods, break from long-dominant paradigms that have blamed 'Gypsy culture' for the violence that has targeted them. Instead, they aim their analytic gaze sharply at specific political networks and alliances that mobilize anti-Gypsy feeling, and at those new European policies and changes that, all too ironically, motivate them. -- Alaina Lemon, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan Anyone looking to inform themselves on the current state of antiziganism and the increasing animosity toward Roma in European politics and society should read this book . . . brilliant, comprehensive and thoroughly recommended. * Romano Centro *