Monthly Archives: January 2016

News Western Europe

Another Movie …

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A French Documentary movie entitled “Toto and his sisters” received the “grand prix” in the Anger Festival. It is unfortunate to say the least that it shows all stereotypes associated with Rroma without any analytical discourse: Rroma live in Ghettoes, deal with drugs, have lots of children (implied in this case), but without stating that this is not a Rroma thing, this is a poverty and social problem.

We are generally against those kind of documentaries, as they reinforce already strongly held stereotypes about us …

NOT GOOD!!!

News Eastern Europe News Switzerland Romania

Lausanne and Beggars

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An article about the somewhat peculiar relationship between Lausanne and its few beggars. There are around 60 of them at any given point in time (not much), a few of them are Rroma, mostly from one region of Romania, and Lausanne is in a love hate relationship with them.

A lot of noise for a small problem…

News Eastern Europe

Slovak Media, Rroma, and Refugees

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A Study conducted on Slovak Media by the Media Academy in Bratislava and a Rroma organisation – Romano Kher – shows that the Slovak Media have a strong bias in their presentation of Rroma and Refugees. Negative stereotypes prevail in both cases.

Unfortunately not surprising.

News Middle East

Domari Today

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Two articles on Domari, the Rroma’s Middle Eastern Cousins and their current plight in Syria and as refugees in other countries.

Another minority that is forgotten in this conflict.

News Western Europe

Jews, and Rroma

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This is new and really welcome! A Jewish view that Jews and Rroma (including of course Sinti) were singled out and are somehow therefore related. This is definitively new and good, as not so long ago, this was definitively not so.

Not so good is that the interpretation of Gadžo is not quite to the point, and that the historical view is very much Western European and not European …

 

Hungary News Eastern Europe

20% …

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According to a report of the Roma Education Fund, only 20% of Rroma complete their secondary education.

20% of what … According to the Hungarian official statistics, there are less than 200’000 Rroma in Hungary. According to the same government, there are more poor Rroma than that and actually, there are 600’000 Rroma in Hungary. The reality is that there are around 800’000 Rroma in Hungary.

So, which 20%?

France News Western Europe

First French Chronicle of 2016 …

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Short chronicle for these first few days of the year. Festivities and Rroma news do not mix well, apparently.

A new year party with Rroma in Lille; a fire in a Rroma camp near Grenoble; in that same city, a camp might be evicted; further flash backs on 2015 in the North of France; a Rrom in front of a judge for stealing youngsters in Lille; and the Frech Communist party (yes, it still exists) calling for more pluralism and tolerance, in spite of the fact tha tcommujnist mayoirs did expel Rroma …

Germany News Western Europe

New Arab Magazine in Germany

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Abwab – the Doors in Arabic – is a new magazine in Germany aimed at its Arabic migrant population. In one article, they mention racism, especially also against Rroma, and explain the German sensitivities on this topic due to their Nazi past.

Unfortunately, it does not address the fact that many of those new migrants share biased views against Rroma too, even when these are Moslems.

Hungary News Eastern Europe

First News … Bad News from Hungary

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On the first day of the year, there is good and bad … And the bad, while still having happened in 2015 says that there is work still to be done.

In Gyöngyöspata, a village in North Eastern Hungary, a Rroma house was set ablaze. It is the sixth time this year, and no culprits have been arrested. This is not acceptable!

France News Western Europe

Last French Chronicle of 2015

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In the hope that 2016 will be kinder to us, here’s the last chronicle of the year for France and Rroma. An integration story in Sucy, near Paris; near Lyon, a camp will be destroyed; in the same Lyon, one asks why there are still some camps in the city; in the North, one remembers a child who died in a fire in a camp near Lille and one remembers a campaign against Rroma; in the same region, one commemorates the large projects that changed the city – repacing a Rroma camp by a new settlement; and finally one interrogates oneself as to why the Front National did such a good score;

News Western Europe

Planned Remembrance of Deportation

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Berlin Marzahn, is planning to commemorate the creation, 80 ago in 2016 of the internment camp for Rroma and Sinti. This is where the Rroma Holocaust started.

May they be remembered!

Greece News Western Europe

Rroma Baby Dies in a Fire in Greece

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A Rroma baby died in a fire in a camp in central Greece. While we regret this death, the reporting and the lack of background on the subject further the standard stereotypes – all Rroma are poor, live in camps, etc…

News Eastern Europe Serbia

Education in Serbia

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Some interesting numbers in Serbia and on education. The census counted 147’000 Rroma in Serbia, or rather, 147’000 people declared themselves or were rated as such in the survey. This represents 2.1% of the population in Serbia. Generally, one counts that there are about 10% of Rroma in that country. A bit more.

The ones who were registered have a bleak future with very low education (only one in a thousand will make it to university).

Bleak but not the full picture.

Germany News Eastern Europe News Western Europe

All Stay

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An action was started in Germany against the deportation of refugees from “safe-countries” who have been in Germany for a long time.

PLEASE SUPPORT!

France News Western Europe

First Rroma Families in Saint-Genis-les-Ollières

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The first Rroma families arrived in the insertion village in Saint-Genis-les-Ollières in spite of a long opposition by the mayor and the residents.

Let’s hope things will work out.

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