How well integrated are Romany People into Serbian society?

Answer 1

shortly... they are not!! (with few exceptions of course)

they usually live in some sort of ghettos in terrible living conditions.. with no hope that they will ever get out of there... not many of them go to school, or have a job or a decent life.. they are a very isolated minority, many of them officially do not exist, and nobody knows the exact number of Romanies in Serbia. People do not like them, and try to avoid any contact with them. sad, not fair, wrong... but that's the way it is.

our government had a social program for those people a few years ago. they were planing to build some cheap apartments and move Romanis from their ghettos (actually in a new gheto, which will not help with their integration in our society), not much but a good place to start.

their "future neighbours" demonstrated for weeks since they did not want to have Romanis near their homes... so the project failed..

good news is that something is happening and there is a great effort to make their life better and to integrate them in society... in the last 10 years the percent of Romanis who go to school is slightly higher, not much but that's something.

Answer 2

It would be really much better for you if you asked easier (more Anglo-Saxon oriented) questions.
I can tell you only how it is in Hungary, but I guess it’s more or less the same in the neighbouring countries. So, here they are not integrated at all. There are some efforts taken, but it’ll still take a long time. A few years ago some gypsy families asked for asylum in France, and they got it. I think this tells a lot. Most of the gypsies are the poorest people here living in very poor conditions, and the y don’t even have the chance to get out of it. People consider them as lazy, stinky criminals, and unfortunately they are confirmed in this belief, because many gypsies don’t have a job (they don’t get one) and so they are forced to steal.
Back to your original question, they are not integrated at all. They live outside of the cities in very poor houses, not so long ago it turned out they are separated in schools, and it’s also happened recently that a man bought their houses and moved them into another village.

Answer 3

Not very well, unfortunately... There is a minority of them that lives as anyone else, and can be very well integrated, accepted in society (but there's always someone stupid enough to be a nationalist), but usually they are in same situation here as in Hungary, begging on the streets and pickpocketing and that's why people have low opinion of them generally... But, when you say Serbian music, you can't think of anything else but a band of Gypsies playing trumpets! In Vojvodina there's a different kind of folk music played on a band of string instruments, but the players are usually Gypsies too... They make great atmosphere, always are full of spirit, you can't sit while they are playing!
Some say that "Gypsy" is a politically incorrect and insulting term, but I had a Romany friend in my class and he was great and always laughing, he said that he doesn't like to be called Rom but Cigan (that's how we say Gypsy in Serbian), as it a name of his people for his people and that he sees nothing wrong in it!