Struggles in the Representations of Roma Immigrants: from Migration Management to Public DiscourseAbstract:In this article we seek to unveil the interminglements between Roma migration in Europe and the shift in the public discourse calling for measures. In the first part of the article, we will establish the general framework of public policies in the management of immigration politics influenced the alleged relationship between ethnicity and crime, taking into account concepts such as Roma population exclusion, poverty and marginalisation at home and abroad. Moreover, we will present the important changes presented by the public opinion, taking into consideration several highly publicized events that cast a shadow of the Roma population in the region. Thus, as a secondary level of our paper, we will approach the specificity of social stigma for Roma immigrants, exploring the implications in the field of social identity and deviance. It can be stated that the economic, political factors were also forthcoming and fueled the process of scapegoating. As we see, describing the high level of criminality of foreigners as the general rule is often a cover for the feelings such as xenophobia, where differences between cultural and social identities are justified by stigma. Thus, the perceived inferiority and superiority can lead to group tensions that are also the object of the present work

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