Cronelyfe

I'm no goddamn Wiccan, gadje

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My parental ancestors’ first home after their move from Bukovina

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Unidentified ancestors in Shandro, Alberta, probably 1920s.

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photos by JEREMY SUTTON-HIBBERT, 1990

In mid-August, French president Nicolas Sarkozy and his government began deporting local Roma residents, or Gypsies as they are known, to Romania and Bulgaria and demolishing their camps in response to clashes between the itinerant group and French police. This policy continues despite resistance by the international community and high-level French officials. Much of the background can be read in here and here, but what is lacking in most reports of this growing humanitarian crisis is the human portrait of the Roma people.

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I have so much eyeshadow on it’s choking me