The Roma struggle for health
Recent legislation — namely the Police, Crime, and Sentencing Act (2022) — gives the government new powers which are intended to push out the Roma way of life. Roma-government relations have become more strained as a result, and access to resources a harder and more weary battle. The Act does a number of things, the most problematic of which is the criminalisation of “trespassing” on public and private property. At the same time as attacking the right to protest, it clamps down on the act of traversing land, a central element of Roma culture. It is one of the worst attacks on the community in...