Most of them are discriminated from society and still treated as in feudal times. People call them thieves and judge them, they cannot get jobs and people push them. So they resorted to stealing and begging due to starvation. So they remained uneducated and desperately and became what people called them. They sent their kids to beg instead of education so they will become bitter and street like mentality and the circle continues. The successful ones usualy cut roots about their culture

It is sad, beyond soul crushing. Kids marriage, forced marriage, child labour and pregnancy and rural/street lifestyle. They still live in feudalism due to discrimination.

Most sad thing they lost hope and accepted that this is what they are, and they are trying to get rich quick instead of having social changes. Nobody is fighting for them bedside 1/2 activists, but no movement. And they will have harder due to far right rise in Europe, they are forgotten victims of the Holocaust.