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Orphans of Transition: Gypsies in Eastern Europe

Issue Date July 1998
Volume 9
Issue 3
Page Numbers 142-56
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About the Author

Zoltan Barany is Frank C. Erwin Jr. Centennial Professor of Government at the University of Texas–Austin. He is the author most recently of States Without Armies: Why They Exist and How They Survive (forthcoming).

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