Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (abbreviated to GRT) is an umbrella term used in the United Kingdom to represent several diverse ethnic groups which have a shared history of nomadism. In the phrase GRT, the Gypsy grouping encompasses Romani people from groups that have resided in Britain since the 16th century, such as the Romanichal (English Gypsies ...
Hostility and discrimination against Romani people is still present in the UK. [ 26 ] [ 1 ] In 2008, it was reported that the Romani experienced a higher degree of racism than any other group in the United Kingdom, including asylum-seekers, and a Mori poll indicated that a third of UK residents admitted to being prejudiced against Romani.
An appeal was heard by a planning inspector, who recognised there was a need for Gypsy and traveller homes in South Cambridgeshire, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
Romani people have been recorded in the United Kingdom since at least the early 16th century. There are estimated to be around 225,000 Romani people residing in the UK. This includes the Romanichal, Kale (Welsh Romani), Scottish Lowland Romani and a sizeable population of Roma from Central and Eastern Europe, who immigrated into the UK in the late 1990s/early 2000s and after EU expansion in 2004.
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller is an ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census.In the 2011 census, the White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller population was 63,193 or about 0.1 percent of the total population of the country.
Proposals to relocate a popular dinosaur park to make way for a Gypsy and traveller site have been dropped, a council has confirmed. Middlesbrough's Teessaurus Park is a 10-acre plot of land that ...
Scottish Romani are the Romani people of Scotland. This includes Romanichal (locally also known as Border Gypsies) and Lowland Romani (Lowland Gypsies). [1]Scottish Travellers are non-Romani groups indigenous to Scotland who live or traditionally lived a nomadic lifestyle, including Scottish Highland Travellers, Scottish Lowland Travellers and Showmen (Funfair Travellers).
In 2017, the TM successfully persuaded the UK Ministry of Justice to introduce ethnic monitoring of GRT people in the youth justice system. [ 10 ] In 2022, the TM campaigned against the proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill , and has called on the streaming service Netflix to remove anti-Roma jokes made by Jimmy Carr .