In 2009, the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia took measures to enlarge inclusion of Romani in the education process.

The conference ended with a recommendation to the Government of India to recognize the Roma community spread across 30 countries as a part of the Indian diaspora.

Even though the proposal went nowhere, this positive climate would lead to the Macedonian Romani enjoying a cultural renaissance throughout the Socialist era.

[20] In the early 1990s, an independent Romanistan (a state for the Romani people) was proposed by leaders of the Party for the Complete Emancipation of Roma.

[21] In modern times, the Romani in North Macedonia often face discrimination, higher levels of poverty and are often treated as a "underclass" by the wider society.

They maintain minimal ties with other Romani American populations, include engineers and teachers among their number, and have established soccer and other social clubs[24].

The fact that they were Roma and Muslims - from Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia - was something the guest workers hid for a long time.

It was only with the Yugoslavian war in the 1990s, which triggered a large exodus to Western Europe, that the past returned: Muslim Roma from their hometowns suddenly appeared on the doorstep, former neighbors, relatives.

Iman Ajdini, a young theologian from Skopje in Macedonia, preaches in Arli - Romanes, the native language of the congregation members[25]