| 1 | After an exile of ten years her uncle returned to Britain. | |
| 2 | Many are forced from home by natural disaster, war or civil unrest. | |
| 3 | They, unlike refugees have not crossed international borders, but remain uprooted in their own countries. | |
| 4 | But most Roma leave their homelands in search not of work but of freedom from destitution and persecution. | |
| 5 | They left their homeland sometime during the 11th century, probably as a result of Muslim invasions, and have never returned. |