The Roma are Europe's largest ethnic minorities — and among the most marginalized European citizens, excluded from society for decades. With the coronavirus pandemic, now they're facing a potential humanitarian disaster.
A Roma family rides a cart loaded with scrap metal to be sold as they get out from Pata-Rât city dump in northwestern Romania.Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images
European citizens, excluded from society for decades. With the coronavirus pandemic, now they're facing a potential humanitarian disaster. "You have many family members living in the same improvised structure, when they're supposed to be social distancing to survive," says Ciprian-Valentin Nodis, a Roma and researcher from northern Romania."And they can't eat because there's no work due to the pandemic. Where is this going to lead?"
In northwestern Romania's Pata-Rât, where Nodis has documented conditions, some 2,000 are crammed into huts made of rotting wood that are built right on the local landfill. Residents sort through the trash for recyclables to sell.
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