Friday, April 20, 2012
Roma Refugees
Writing in The Dominion, Kristyna Balaban discusses the dramatic reversal of Canadian refugee policy toward Roma immigrants. Persecuted by government officials and neo-Nazi skinheads alike, Roma in Central and Eastern Europe are fleeing in droves. In what was once a safe sanctuary, the welcome mat in Canada has been rolled up, and thousands of Roma refugees have been deported back to unsafe and discriminatory states like Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic.
