Gypsies and other itinerant groups : a socio-historical approach / Leo Lucassen, Wim Willems, Annemarie Cottaar.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-219) and index.

Ethnicity as a death-trap : the history of gypsy studies / Wim Willems -- The church of knowledge : representation of gypsies in encyclopaedias / Wim Willems and Leo Lucassen -- Eternal vagrants? State formation, migration and travelling groups in Western Europe, 1350-1914 ; 'Harmful tramps' : police professionalization and gypsies in Germany, 1700-1945 / Leo Lucassen -- A silent war : foreign gypsies and the Dutch government policy, 1969-89 / Wim Willems and Leo Lucassen -- The making of a minority : the case of Dutch travellers / Annemarie Cottaar -- A blind spot : migratory and travelling groups in Western European historiography / Leo Lucassen -- The clink of the hammer was heard from daybreak till dawn : gypsy occupations in Western Europe (nineteenth-twentieth centuries) / Leo Lucassen -- Dutch travellers : dwellings, origins and occupations / Annemarie Cottaar.