The Gypsy ‘Menace', Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics, Michael Stewart (editors preface by Misha Glenny (Hurst& Co., London, 2012) 382pp., paperback, £18.95, ISBN 978 1 84904 220 8

Attitudes to Roma and Gypsies in many EU countries have changed considerably in the last five years or so.  Increasingly the Roma have become targeted by right-wing populism and hate speech.  The authors of the fifteen chapters of this book are drawn from all over Europe - Belfast to Sofia, Paris to Prague, Rome to Budapest.  They explore the context of the deplorable approaches to the ten million members of Roma in the light of the huge social and economical changes of the last generation and put forward measures to counteract the xenophobia of recent years.  They include political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists.

This is a disturbing book demonstrating new types of racism and social exclusion and at the same time an encouraging book in the necessary resistance to these developments.  The book provides the full range of academic paraphernalia - notes, references and extended index - but a list of the contributors and their details would have been helpful to the reader.