“…In June 2008, Serbia took the Decade Presidency and announced the National Action Plans for Roma inclusion, prioritizing legalization of Roma settlements and the prevention of discrimination in education. However, the Roma remained segregated from the mainstream population, facing high unemployment and low education rates, poor living conditions, and limited access to healthcare (Miklos, Smederevac, & Tovilovic, 2009; Milcher, 2009). Moreover, they were often subjected to forced evictions, as well as to sporadic incidents of racially motivated violence, committed mostly by ultra‐nationalist youth groups and skinheads (Ackovic, 2009; Crowe, 2008; Simeunovic, 2008).…”