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Introduction: Surdu’s Choices and Position

Andrzej Mirga is a Polish Roma, an ethnologist, analyst, and activist. He currently serves as the chair of the Roma Education Fund (REF). Prior to this, he headed the Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues at the OSCE’s Warsaw-based Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) from December 2006 to November 2013. He was the first Roma to study at Jagiellonian University in Krakow where he later taught (until 1992). He co-founded the first Polish Roma association after the fall of communism and led it as its President (1991– 1995). Mirga is also a long-term associate of the Project on Ethnic Relations, a U.S.-based nongovernmental mediating organization with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey. Here, he also formed the Roma Advisory Council, a small team of prominent Romani leaders, activists and experts from Central and Eastern Europe, and the United States. He served at the Committee of Experts on Roma and Travellers of the Council of Europe, also as its chair, and later joined Poland’s Common Commission of the Government and National and Ethnic Minorities as well as the High-Level Group on Labour Market and Disadvantaged Ethnic Minorities (European Commission, 2005–2007). He has been publishing widely since the 1990s. Book review by