07.03.2014 “The Rroma: The scapegoats of politics”

Mouillard (2014) reports on the publication of the latest paper by Romeurope. In the policy report 2012-2013, the organization criticises the unaltered stigmatization of Rroma by French politics, the authorities and the deterioration of conditions in the slums: “Regardless of the change of government, one is forced to state with consternation that the situation of persons who live in occupied houses and slums has deteriorated. […] The Rroma are assigned this [negative] identity, they are seen as uncontrollable as well as being responsible for the filthy housing conditions.” Mouillard shows with numerous quotes from a wide variety of politicians, that the Rroma still serve as scapegoats for local politics, which portrays the Rroma as a counter-concept to bourgeois values (compare Romeurope 2014).

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