Mykola Homanyuk

It is hard not to notice that during this war a separate Roma narrative has emerged in Ukraine. Now we are conducting in-depth interviews with Roma from different countries on the general topic “Roma and War.” Our aim is to understand what is happening to Roma identity in conditions of war and in the context of this Roma narrative. We would like to find out what has changed (or not) with the ethnic and civic identity of the Roma during the war; indeed, our research is already ongoing. We are going to use this funding as humanitarian aid for our Roma respondents who are living under occupation. The total number of planned interviews is no less than 30. Each case will include an audio file, general information about the respondent, a script of the interview in the original language, and a script in the Ukrainian language. We also plan to collect information from social media, as well as videos and photos related to Roma and the war discourse.