The paper discusses the situation of Roma children and adolescents in two different social contexts: One is an illegal camp of ex-Yugoslavian Roma refugees in Scampia, in one of the most deprived quarters of Naples, Italy and the other is a deprived suburban area of Pécs, Hungary with a significant heterogeneous Roma population as a minority facing typical Eastern-European post-industrial problems. The focus is on the narratives of these children and adolescents about the school and the construction of Gypsy/Roma in these narratives. The analysis of the quarters’ social context, the description of the camp's and area's community, the networks of the habitants and the analysis of the educational situation of these neighborhoods provides the background for the deep interpretation of the children’s and adolescents’ narratives about attending or not attending school, their everyday experiences inside the school, their feelings about their classmates and teachers, their own evaluation of their “successes or failures”, their own and their families’ most common explanations of their conflicts in/with school. My focus is on how the question of being Gypsy/Roma emerges in their stories about school and how can we interpret these in relation to such often discussed questions like integration, intercultural education, discrimination, etc.The paper has a special focus on how they express their “identity” through these stories, when and how are they Roma/Gypsy or Hungarian, Neapolitan, “beás” or “kolompár”, “rom ortodossi” or ”rom musulmani”, etc. The comparison of these two different contexts can give some precious answers for these questions by creating a “glocal” perspective on them.

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