Romani studies

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Romani studies (occasionally Gypsiology) is an interdisciplinary ethnic studies field concerned with the culture, history and political experiences of the Romani people. The discipline also focuses on the interactions between other peoples and Romas, and their mindset towards the Romas.{{cite web |title=Romani Studies |work=Södertörn University |place=Stockholm, Sweden |url=https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/research/our-research/romani-studies |access-date=23 June 2021}}

Other terms for the academic field include Ziganology,{{Cite web|url=http://www.romacult.org/|title=European Roma Cultural Foundation - ERCF - ERCF - European Roma Cultural Foundation|website=www.romacult.org}} Ciganology,{{Cite web|url=http://portal.zcu.cz/ects/fakulty/FF/KSA/REA?lang=en|title=Information package & Course catalogue|website=portal.zcu.cz}} Romology,{{cite book |last1=Knejp |first1=Jan |chapter=Postavení a vývoj romologie v České republice a její vliv na vytváření multikulturního prostředí |trans-chapter=The position and evolution of Romology in the Czech Republic and its influence on the creation of a multicultural environment |language=Czech |title=Národnostní menšiny, multikulturalita, vzdělávání |editor1-first=Helena |editor1-last=Nosková |year=2010 |isbn=978-80-7285-129-4 |pages=184–194 |publisher=Ústav pro soudobé dějiny AV ČR }} Romalogy,http://www.wereurope.eu/download/MTG/Abstract_MTG_SI.pdf

Main issues for the abstracts on Marginalised Target Group and Romistics.[http://iu.ff.cuni.cz/old/?page=publicationsxx&xx=21 Bibliography of the staff of the Seminar of Indian Studies]

Some of the notable scholars of Romani studies includes Ian Hancock,{{cite web | title=Dr. Ian Hancock One of the Country's Foremost Experts on the Roma People to Retire|publisher=University of Texas| url= https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/slavic/news/dr-ian-hancock-one-of-country-s-foremost-experts-on-the-roma-people-to-retire}} Colin Clark{{cite book |title=Neoliberal Scotland: Class and Society in a Stateless Nation |editor1-first=David |editor1-last=Miller |editor2-first=Neil |editor2-last=Davidson |editor3-first=Patricia |editor3-last=McCafferty |year=2010 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars |place=Newcastle, UK |isbn=978-1443816755 |lccn=2009512670 |oclc=498931494 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kNokAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Colin+Clark%22+%22Romani+Studies%22 |quote-page=445 |quote=His specialist work in Romani Studies is well known and respected, and he is co-author of Here to Stay: the Gypsies and Travellers of Britain (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2006).}} and Lev Cherenkov{{cite book |title=Scholarship and the Gypsy Struggle: Commitment in Romani Studies |type=A Collection of Papers and Poems to Celebrate Donald Kenrick's Seventieth Year |edition=illustrated |editor1-first=Donald |editor1-last=Kenrick |editor2-first=Thomas Alan |editor2-last=Acton |year=2000 |pages=140–149 |publisher=University of Hertfordshire Press |place=Hertfordshire, UK |chapter=Oh, This Russian Spirit Abides Everywhere: A Dialogue of the Imagination with Dr Donald Kenrick |first=Vladimir |last=Kalinin |isbn=978-1902806013 |lccn=2001320282 |oclc=1114793004 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CGWFAQ9RZ0oC&pg=PA148 |quote-page=148 |quote=Roma played every role in Soviet society, from general to prisoner of conscience. As I wrote this paper, a telephone conversation with the notable Moscow Romani studies scholar, Lev Cherenkov (b. 1936), told me about a now retired Soviet Colonel, a Rom by the name of Alexei Danchenko (b. 1934).}} among others.