One-third of the Romani refugees from Ukraine in the Czech Republic have encountered intolerance and every sixth Romani refugee has experienced discrimination from the authorities. Most Romani refugees from Ukraine are living in residential hotels or refugee camps in the country.
The vast majority of Romani refugees from Ukraine speak Ukrainian, for two-thirds of whom it is their main language. Those are the findings of a newly-published survey by PAQ Research which refutes the frequent reports alleging that such refugees are actually Hungarian.
Czech Television has also already refuted those allegations by publishing numbers showing that of more than 5,000 requests to verify whether such refugees also hold citizenship in Hungary, just approximately 150 were answered in the affirmative by the Hungarian authorities. The PAQ survey involved representatives of 100 households and focused on the basic characteristics of their members, such as citizenship and languages used.
