Stefan: 'After 20 years on the move, nothing gets better'

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In contrast to the controversial French government policy this summer of organising mass expulsions of Roma, local authorities in the Greater Paris Region run six social reinsertion camps, tactfully called 'villages', aimed at integrating them into more stable social conditions. In the fourth of our five-part series, Stefan Papouka, 47, a Romanian Rom in the Montreuil camp, tells how he has "fought to give my five children a chance" since arriving illegally in France in 1994, but is now weary of "trying to find solutions, a real job, a place to live."

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