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A store just outside the settlement bills itself as a “Tradition-Protecting” shop. There has been some flare-ups of anti-Roma violence in Hungary in recent years, and the Roma living here read this as a provocation. “THey don’t want us here,” one resident told me. “We have lived here our whole lives. Our parents and grandparents lived and died here. But to them, we are still outsiders.” Continue reading IMG_2418