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Journal Article
'Gypsy Invasion': A critical analysis of newspaper reaction to Czech and Slovak Romani asylum-seekers in Britain, 1997
2000
Overview
Following Canadian efforts to prevent Romanies from Slovakia and the Czech Republic
entering its territory, in October 1997, Romani families from the former
Czechoslovakia started to arrive at the port of Dover in Kent, England. They were
attempting to claim political asylum in the UK due to the high levels of institutionalised
racism and discrimination which forced them to flee their home countries.
The reactions these families received from most sections of the British press
were vitriolic and overtly hostile. It is this newspaper coverage that will be unpacked,
examined and critically discussed in this article. Importantly, we regard the
newspaper texts not simply as material for a contemporary case study, but as an
object of analysis which is both a product of a particular historical moment, and
simultaneously a recent manifestation of a longer historical project to construct
Roma people in censuring and censorious ways. For all that, our analysis reveals
very little of the struggles and experiences of these asylum-seekers, but everything
about British xenophobia, anti-Gypsyism, and the (a) British way of life.
