Violeta Vajda

Violeta Vajda is a PhD researcher with the University of Sussex and the Institute of Development Studies in the United Kingdom. She writes about how non-Roma identity can be reconfigured in light of critical race theory to become empowering and transformational.

‘The best Roma in the village is the Roma who works as a servant’

On this year's International Roma Day, three writers reflect on how Roma slave labour was used to help build Europe's prosperity, and how Roma communities are still suffering the after effects.

By Violeta Vajda, Isak Skenderi, Szilvia Rézmüves and Margareta Matache

/ 7 Apr 2017

‘The best Roma in the village is the Roma who works as a servant’

On this year's International Roma Day, three writers reflect on how Roma slave labour was used to help build Europe's prosperity, and how Roma communities are still suffering the after effects.

By Violeta Vajda, Isak Skenderi, Szilvia Rézmüves and Margareta Matache

/ 7 Apr 2017