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  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-328.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-316.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-319.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-315.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-305.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-301.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-300.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-295.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-332.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-322.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-320.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-311.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-307.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-302.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-298.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-296.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-290.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-331.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-323.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-326.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-321.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-312.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-303.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-304.jpg
  • Members of the music group GRUBB -  Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats - practice in an abandoned industrial building in Belgrade, Serbia. The group puts a contemporary spin on the rich musical heritage of the persecuted Roma by infusing traditional melodies with hip-hop beats. The group, which has performed in other parts of Europe and in North America, presents a message challenging the prejudice and discrimination facing the Roma of the Balkans..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-293.jpg
  • Mirjava Memetovic holds her daughters Kristina (left) and Laura, in front of their makeshift home in Palilula, a neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. They are Roma, also known as Gypsies, and were expelled in 2012 from the center of Belgrade to make way for new apartments and office buildings. Because Memetovic had no identity documents, she was sent with her daughters to her native village in the south of the country, but soon returned as she had no way to survive there. She and her daughters beg for money at a fast food restaurant near their squatter settlement.
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  • Kristina and Laura Memetovic pose in front of their makeshift home in Palilula, a neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. They are Roma, also known as Gypsies, and with their mother were expelled in 2012 from the center of Belgrade to make way for new apartments and office buildings. Because their mother had no identity documents, she was sent with her daughters to her native village in the south of the country, but soon returned as she had no way to survive there. She and her daughters beg for money at a fast food restaurant near their squatter settlement.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B54.jpg
  • Mirjava Memetovic holds her daughters Kristina (left) and Laura, in front of their makeshift home in Palilula, a neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. They are Roma, also known as Gypsies, and were expelled in 2012 from the center of Belgrade to make way for new apartments and office buildings. Because Memetovic had no identity documents, she was sent with her daughters to her native village in the south of the country, but soon returned as she had no way to survive there. She and her daughters beg for money at a fast food restaurant near their squatter settlement.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B59.jpg
  • Mirjava Memetovic holds her daughters Kristina (left) and Laura, in front of their makeshift home in Palilula, a neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. They are Roma, also known as Gypsies, and were expelled in 2012 from the center of Belgrade to make way for new apartments and office buildings. Because Memetovic had no identity documents, she was sent with her daughters to her native village in the south of the country, but soon returned as she had no way to survive there. She and her daughters beg for money at a fast food restaurant near their squatter settlement.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B55.jpg
  • Mirjava Memetovic holds her daughter Kristina. They live in Palilula, a neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. They are Roma, also known as Gypsies, and were expelled in 2012 from the center of Belgrade to make way for new apartments and office buildings. Because Memetovic had no identity documents, she was sent with her daughters to her native village in the south of the country, but soon returned as she had no way to survive there. She and her daughters beg for money at a fast food restaurant near their squatter settlement.
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B61.jpg
  • Mirjava Memetovic in front of her makeshift home in Palilula, a neighborhood of Belgrade, Serbia. She and her two daughters are Roma, also known as Gypsies, and were expelled in 2012 from the center of Belgrade to make way for new apartments and office buildings. Because Memetovic had no identity documents, she was sent with her daughters to her native village in the south of the country, but soon returned as she had no way to survive there. She and her daughters beg for money at a fast food restaurant near their squatter settlement..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-B53.jpg
  • The groom and his friends dance in a wedding in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is considered Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-89.jpg
  • Sadedin Husein, 63, is a Roma man who lives in the mostly Roma town of Suto Orizari, Macedonia, but spends his days at work collecting plastic bottles in the streets of Skopje, which he sells to recyclers.  Here he searches for bottles in garbage dumpsters.
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-31.jpg
  • Esmeralda and Semirah Redjepi are Roma youth in Suto Orizari, the Macedonian municipality that is Europe's largest Roma settlement. Here the sisters walk to school.
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  • Erdzhan Madzharov, who also goes by his Bulgarian name of Krassimir, preaches in the United Methodist Church he serves in the largely Roma neighborhood of Gorno Ezerovo, part of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. Yet residents here don't self-identify much as Roma, because of the negative connotations associated with the word, so many refer to themselves as a Turkish-speaking minority. Madzharov is the pastor of the congregation.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-077.jpg
  • Arbanac Sofija and her 3-year old daughter Caka huddle under a blanket - provided by Church World Service - inside their meager home in an illegal Roma settlement in Belgrade, Serbia, in February 2012. The poor family has been told it will be evicted by city officials in March 2012 to make way for new high-rise office buildings.  In April 2012, the Serbian Orthodox family was forcibly evicted from the city center and given a metal shipping container in Makis, at the edge of Belgrade, where they could live. After several weeks, they were evicted from the shipping container because of her husband's repeated fights with his neighbors, and at the end of 2012 lived in an informal Roma squatter settlement in nearby Palilula. In 2009, they had been evicted from another settlement in Belgrade..
    serbia-2012-jeffrey-roma-216.jpg
  • A tutor helps a girl with her homework in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the afterschool program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood.
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  • Zhivko Hristov (left) and his brother Martin, Roma immigrants from Bulgaria, prepare their hair at home in the morning before leaving for school in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. The two boys, 12 and 9, participate in an after school program sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church. It focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood.
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  • Zhivko Hristov (left) and his brother Martin, Roma immigrants from Bulgaria, prepare their hair at home in the morning before leaving for school in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. The two boys, 12 and 9, participate in an after school program sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church. It focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood.
    germany-2012-jeffrey-berlin-28.jpg
  • Nine-year old Martin Hristov, a Roma immigrant from Bulgaria, prepares his hair at home in the morning before leaving for school in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. He participates in an after school program sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church. It focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood.
    germany-2012-jeffrey-berlin-26.jpg
  • Genadi Hristov (right) and his wife Yuliana Marinovah, along with their sons Martin, 9, and Zhivko, 12, pose in the family's apartment in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. They are Roma immigrants from Bulgaria. The couple's two sons participate in an after school program sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church. It focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood.
    germany-2012-jeffrey-berlin-24.jpg
  • Michelle S. Dromgold helps a girl learn to play the guitar in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood. Dromgold is a mission intern of The United Methodist Church.
    germany-2012-jeffrey-berlin-15.jpg
  • A boy plays ping pong in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the after school program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood.
    germany-2012-jeffrey-berlin-14.jpg
  • A boy plays ping pong in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the after school program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood.
    germany-2012-jeffrey-berlin-12.jpg
  • Michelle S. Dromgold helps Martin (left) and Zhivko Hristov with their homework assignments in the Kindertreff Delbrücke, a program for children in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. Sponsored by the Salem Gemeinde United Methodist Church, the afterschool program focuses on children from Roma and other vulnerable families, and encourages interfaith cooperation and understanding in an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood. Dromgold is a mission intern of The United Methodist Church. The two boys, aged 9 and 12, are Roma whose family recently immigrated to Germany from Bulgaria.
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  • Participants dance in the street during a wedding in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is considered Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
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  • Participants dance in the street during a wedding in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is considered Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-95.jpg
  • Participants dance in the street during a wedding in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is considered Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-94.jpg
  • A woman in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-82.jpg
  • A boy skips rope in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-79.jpg
  • A woman poses in the doorway of her house in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-75.jpg
  • A woman plays with cats in the street in front of her house in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-73.jpg
  • Two Roma girls in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-69.jpg
  • Documents of a Roma woman in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. The lack of legal documents handicaps the access of many Roma to the legal system..
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  • A Roma woman in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-61.jpg
  • Ljatife Sikovska (left) is director of Ambrela, a grassroots Roma women's organization in Suto Orizari, the Macedonian municipality that is Europe's largest Roma settlement. Here she talks with a woman in her home in Suto Orizari about the woman's lack of sufficient legal documents, a common headache for Roma in Macedonia.
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-58.jpg
  • Ljatife Sikovska (right) is director of Ambrela, a grassroots Roma women's organization in Suto Orizari, the Macedonian municipality that is Europe's largest Roma settlement. Here she talks with a woman on a street in Suto Orizari about the woman's lack of sufficient legal documents, a common headache for Roma in Macedonia.
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-55.jpg
  • A Roma girl in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-53.jpg
  • A Roma woman in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-50.jpg
  • A Muslim Roma woman walks along a street in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
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  • A Roma girl and her doll in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-45.jpg
  • Men push a cart along a street in Suto Orizari, Macedonia. The mostly Roma community, located just outside Skopje, is Europe's largest Roma settlement. .
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-42.jpg
  • Sadedin Husein, 63, is a Roma man who lives in the mostly Roma town of Suto Orizari, Macedonia, but spends his days at work collecting plastic bottles in the streets of Skopje, which he sells to recyclers.  Here he is pulling bottles out of garbage dumpsters.
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-34.jpg
  • Sadedin Husein, 63, is a Roma man who lives in the mostly Roma town of Suto Orizari, Macedonia, but spends his days at work collecting plastic bottles in the streets of Skopje, which he sells to recyclers.  Here he is pulling bottles out of garbage dumpsters.
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-33.jpg
  • Sadedin Husein, 63, is a Roma man who lives in the mostly Roma town of Suto Orizari, Macedonia, but spends his days at work collecting plastic bottles in the streets of Skopje, which he sells to recyclers.  Here he is pulling bottles out of garbage dumpsters.
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-32.jpg
  • Sadedin Husein, 63, is a Roma man who lives in the mostly Roma town of Suto Orizari, Macedonia, but spends his days at work collecting plastic bottles in the streets of Skopje, which he sells to recyclers.  Here he is pulling bottles out of garbage dumpsters.
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-28.jpg
  • Sadedin Husein, 63, is a Roma man who lives in the mostly Roma town of Suto Orizari, Macedonia, but spends his days at work collecting plastic bottles in the streets of Skopje, which he sells to recyclers.  Here he smashes a bottle he pulled out of a garbage dumpster.
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-24.jpg
  • Sadedin Husein, 63, is a Roma man who lives in the mostly Roma town of Suto Orizari, Macedonia, but spends his days at work collecting plastic bottles in the streets of Skopje, which he sells to recyclers.  Here he pulls a bottle out of a garbage dumpster.
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-16.jpg
  • Sadedin Husein, 63, is a Roma man who lives in the mostly Roma town of Suto Orizari, Macedonia, but spends his days at work collecting plastic bottles in the streets of Skopje, which he sells to recyclers.
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-17.jpg
  • Two Roma children play football (soccer) in Suto Orizari, the Macedonian municipality that is Europe's largest Roma settlement.
    macedonia-2012-jeffrey-roma-10.jpg
  • A girl in a largely Roma, Turkish-speaking neighborhood of Dobrich, in the northeast of Bulgaria.
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  • Gulten Murat shows her identity card. She lives in a largely Roma, Turkish-speaking neighborhood of Dobrich, in the northeast of Bulgaria. Although she goes by her original Turkish name, her government-issued identity card has the Bulgarian version of her name: Galena Ilieva. Some information on the card has been blurred to protect details of her identity.
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  • A woman pushes a cart of material to be recycled in a largely Roma, Turkish-speaking neighborhood of Dobrich, in the northeast of Bulgaria.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-096.jpg
  • Pepa Adre, 25, sweeps the ground around her home in a largely Roma, Turkish-speaking neighborhood of Dobrich, in the northeast of Bulgaria.
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  • A young woman in front of her home in a largely Roma, Turkish-speaking neighborhood of Dobrich, in the northeast of Bulgaria.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-086.jpg
  • Stoyan Stalev preaches in the United Methodist Church in the largely Roma neighborhood of Gorno Ezerovo, part of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. Yet residents here don't self-identify much as Roma, because of the negative connotations associated with the word, so many refer to themselves as a Turkish-speaking minority.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-076.jpg
  • A girl covers her face as she prays during the children's class of the United Methodist Church in the largely Roma neighborhood of Gorno Ezerovo, part of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. Residents here don't self-identify much as Roma, because of the negative connotations associated with the word, so many refer to themselves as a Turkish-speaking minority.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-069.jpg
  • A girl prays in the children's class of the United Methodist Church in the largely Roma neighborhood of Gorno Ezerovo, part of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. Residents here don't self-identify much as Roma, because of the negative connotations associated with the word, so many refer to themselves as a Turkish-speaking minority.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-068.jpg
  • A girl in the largely Roma neighborhood of Gorno Ezerovo, part of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. Residents here don't self-identify much as Roma, because of the negative connotations associated with the word, so many refer to themselves as a Turkish-speaking minority.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-062.jpg
  • A woman and her son in front of their house in the largely Roma neighborhood of Gorno Ezerovo, part of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. Residents here don't self-identify much as Roma, because of the negative connotations associated with the word, so many refer to themselves as a Turkish-speaking minority.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-058.jpg
  • A woman holds her daughter in the largely Roma neighborhood of Gorno Ezerovo, part of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. Residents here don't self-identify much as Roma, because of the negative connotations associated with the word, so many refer to themselves as a Turkish-speaking minority.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-056.jpg
  • Maria Ivanova and Angel Ivanov and two of their children pose in front of their house in the largely Roma neighborhood of Gorno Ezerovo, part of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. Yet residents here don't self-identify much as Roma, because of the negative connotations associated with the word, so many refer to themselves as a Turkish-speaking minority.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-044.jpg
  • A girl in the largely Roma neighborhood of Gorno Ezerovo, part of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. Residents here don't self-identify much as Roma, because of the negative connotations associated with the word, so many refer to themselves as a Turkish-speaking minority.
    bulgaria-2012-jeffrey-roma-043.jpg
  • A girl in the largely Roma neighborhood of Gorno Ezerovo, part of the Bulgarian city of Burgas. Residents here don't self-identify much as Roma, because of the negative connotations associated with the word, so many refer to themselves as a Turkish-speaking minority.
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  • Vassil Ivanov lives in the Bulgarian town of Staro Oriahovo, where residents consider the term "Roma"  to be negative and thus refer to themselves as Romanian-speaking Bulgarians. Ivanov is a member of the local United Methodist Church.
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  • A Roma girl collects drinking water from a dirty stream flowing through the Maxsuda neighborhood of Varna, Bulgaria.
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  • Asen Filipov, 25, is a Turkish-speaking Bulgarian living in the Maxsuda neighborhood of Varna, Bulgaria. He is a member of the local United Methodist congregation. Many consider Turkish-speaking Bulgarians to be Roma.
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  • Two boys walk through the Maxsuda neighborhood of Varna, Bulgaria, where many Turkish-speaking Roma live.
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  • Girls play in the Maxsuda neighborhood of Varna, Bulgaria, an area where many Turkish-speaking Roma live.
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  • Feride Ramadan Mehmed (left) and her husband Mehmed hold their children Birdzhan, 1, and Erdzhan, 3, in their house in the Maxsuda neighborhood of Varna, Bulgaria. They are Turkish-speaking Roma, and were violently driven out of one neighborhood by racist gangs. They took refuge in a United Methodist Church for a year before finding this small house to rent.
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  • Feride Ramadan comforts her one-year old son Birdzhan in their house in the Maxsuda neighborhood of Varna, Bulgaria. They are Turkish-speaking Roma, and were violently driven out of one neighborhood by racist gangs. They took refuge in a United Methodist Church for a year before finding this small house to rent.
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  • A woman prays during a worship service of the United Methodist Roma congregation in Jabuka, Serbia..
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  • Todor Janosev is a member a Roma congregation of The United Methodist Church in Srbobran, Serbia. Here he listens to the sermon during a worship service. Behind him is Mira Janosev.
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  • Lukic Sveto is a Roma resident of Backo Gradiske, Serbia.
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  • Mira Durkic, a Roma resident of Backo Gradiske, Serbia.
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  • A Roma girl looks through the dirty window of her simple home, located under a bridge in Belgrade, Serbia.  The families that lived here, most of whom survive from recycling cardboard and other materials, were forcibly evicted in April 2012. Many, including this girl, were moved into metal shipping containers on the edge of Belgrade.
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  • A Roma girl looks through the dirty window of her simple home, located under a bridge in Belgrade, Serbia.  The families that lived here, most of whom survive from recycling cardboard and other materials, were forcibly evicted in April 2012. Many, including this girl, were moved into metal shipping containers on the edge of Belgrade.
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  • Arden Dasi, loading metal cans into his recycling cart,  lived under a bridge in a Roma settlement in Belgrade, Serbia, when this photo was taken in February 2012. He is a refugee from Kosovo. The families that lived here, most of whom survive from recycling cardboard and other materials, were forcibly evicted in April 2012. Many were moved into metal shipping containers on the edge of Belgrade..
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  • Arden Dasi, connecting his motorcycle and recycling cart with help from two of his sons, lived under a bridge in a Roma settlement in Belgrade, Serbia, when this photo was taken in February 2012. they are refugees from Kosovo. The families that lived here, most of whom survive from recycling cardboard and other materials, were forcibly evicted in April 2012. Many were moved into metal shipping containers on the edge of Belgrade..
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  • Arden Dasi, connecting his motorcycle and recycling cart, lived under a bridge in a Roma settlement in Belgrade, Serbia, when this photo was taken in February 2012. He and his family are refugees from Kosovo. The families that lived here, most of whom survive from recycling cardboard and other materials, were forcibly evicted in April 2012. Many were moved into metal shipping containers on the edge of Belgrade..
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