In Scotland, there are currently no official 'transit' sites where Gypsy and Traveller people can stop over while travelling, while many council-run sites are situated in bad locations, often due to historic reasons and travelling patterns, with inadequate facilities and limited access to services.
This means that Gypsy and Traveller communities are often forced to stop in unauthorised areas, which can lead to problems and confrontations with local communities. Laws that protect tenants in settled housing often don't apply to Gypsy and Traveller communities living on sites, which means that often they can be moved on fairly easily.
The section on eviction and rights of Gypsy and Traveller people explains more. Unfortunately, many people are prejudiced against the Gypsy and Traveller community and their way of life. As a result, travelling people are likely to face a great deal of discrimination and harassment. The page on discrimination against Gypsy and Traveller communities looks at ways of combating this.
Councils should involve members of the Gypsy and Traveller community when drawing up plans and strategies. They may do this by:. Organisations such as Friends, Families and Travellers campaign to change the law in the UK and Scotland and improve the rights of the Gyspy and Traveller community. Get Help. Who are Irish Travellers? Do all Gypsies and Irish Travellers travel? Planning law defines Gypsies and Irish Travellers as people with a travelling way of life.
When Gypsies and Travellers live in houses their culture and heritage stays with them; you do not have to travel to be a Traveller. Some groups are highly mobile, moving on when work opportunities have been exhausted and others live permanently in one area or only travel for a few weeks or months of the year. Most Gypsy and Traveller families live within close-knit communities, whether in housing or on caravan sites, with strong family and social networks.
Gypsies and Travellers now use modern, good quality vehicles and caravans. The main reason for travelling is to work, follow fairs and visit family. I thought the whole point of being a Gypsy or an Irish Traveller was that you travel?
Why do they need permanent sites? Although Gypsies and Travellers travel for some of the year, during the winter months most people need a place to stop: Travelling patterns are linked to the seasons and the work associated with the seasons. Gypsies and Travellers do not travel on a daily basis, all year round.
Families require safe and secure places from which to do their travelling. Most of de Wendler-Funaro's photographs of this group were taken in Maspeth, a section of the borough of Queens in New York City, where the Ludar created a "village" of homemade shacks that existed from about to , when it was razed. A similar settlement stood in the Chicago suburbs during the same period. Their arrival coincided with an increase in the demand for draft horses in agriculture and then in urbanization, and many Romnichels worked as horse-traders.
After the rapid decline in the horse trade following the First World War, most Romnichels relied on previously secondary enterprises, "basket-making," including the manufacture and sale of rustic furniture, and fortune-telling.
Horse and mule trading continued to some extent in southern states where poverty and terrain slowed the adoption of tractor power Salo and Salo All my friends are asking if it's true what they show on telly, and I think they've gone different [towards me] since it was shown. In one episode the viewer was informed that young Traveller men at weddings and other social occasions use something known as "grabbing" to force a reluctant girl to kiss them. One newspaper report called it a "secret courting ritual".
It's just one nasty boy they showed. Brigid adds: "Grabbing has never happened to my kids. I have honestly never heard of it. It's all make-believe. We don't want that for our daughters. Helen is also worried that Traveller women are being portrayed as rich and spoilt when, in fact, life is a struggle for the majority.
Mine was secondhand. They'll now be saying we are all criminals, or sponging off the state. I ask O'Roarke what she thinks the future holds for Travellers. She is worried. And if these women lose the little support they have, they literally will be left to rot. She is concerned that problems affecting Traveller women and girls, such as lack of education, forced and early marriage, and abuse within the home, are not being taken seriously.
But some say that things are slowly improving.
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