Gypsies and Travellers: Myths and Realities
In this podcast Dr Zoë James explores the way that Gypsies and Travellers have been kept apart from wider society via myths about their identities and cultures that rarely conform to their lived realities. Through the use of quotes from empirical research, the voices of Gypsies and Travellers are heard that evidence their social, economic and political exclusion. Romantic notions of nomadism and racialised perceptions of Gypsy and Traveller legitimacy underpin the harms of exclusion they experience in their daily lives.