Jenisch camp in Geneva (Queue d'Arve), 1945
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Making panniers and baskets, 1943
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Pedlar in Bern, 1940
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Working on the dodgems, 1942
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Handing down traditional games (Queue d'Arve), 1945
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Girls doing their homework (Queue d'Arve), 1945
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The Jenisch in Switzerland, 1943
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In the sitting room, 1942
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These travellers have long been subject to discrimination.
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Despite being granted Swiss citizenship in 1851, the Jenisch were marginalised for more than a century. From 1926-1972 Jenisch children were taken away from their parents and put into care. Nowadays around 90 per cent of the 30,000 Jenisch in Switzerland have abandoned their nomadic lifestyle.
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