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Roma, Romanians, and Poland

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Roma, Romanians, and Poland

After the fall of communism, in the early 1990s, a significant number of Roma migrants from Romania appeared in Poland. According to this article, they engaged in organised begging (and other stereotypes). But the result was that for many Poles, Romanians and Roma were two interchangeable terms, i.e. all Roam are Romanians and all Romanians are Roma…

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Ukraine, the UK and Roma

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Ukraine, the UK and Roma

A reprint of a Guardian article in the Ukrainian press about Roma palaces in Hășdat.

Both articles pander to sterotypes…

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Greece and the “Copper Mafia”

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Greece and the “Copper Mafia”

Several articles in the Bulgarian press about a police action in Roma settlements in Greece against the “copper mafia”, which steals and trades metals on the black market. According to the police, these are usually Roma gangs, and the target of their raids are copper cables and railway tracks. Catalytic converters are also removed from the cars, which are then sold on the black market for between 400 and 900 euros. The more expensive ones are stolen to order from illegal car repair shops.

Among the people arrested there were Greeks, Bulgarians, and Romanians.

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Romano Feminist Theatre

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Romano Feminist Theatre

An interview with Mihaela Dragan, founder of a feminist Roma theatre. She says “My grandmother was a matriarch, so I always had feminism first-hand, although I didn’t know that such a word existed. At home, I saw that women are born leaders.”

The manifesto “Roma Futurismi” written by Mihaela Dragan, was translated into Polish by Marta Orczykowska for the Łódź of Many Cultures Festival.

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A book on Rudari Migration

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A book from 2023 about Rudari, a Vlach Roma group now found all over Europe. It investigates their migrations and history.

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French Chronicle …

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Not much about Roma in the French press this week either. A festival in Perpignan, in Southern France showcasing the work of a Romanian photograph, who, sorry to say, perpetuates stereotypes; and the evacuation of one of the oldest Roma camps near Paris, in la Courneuve. The camp was established in 2008. An no one asks why 80 families had to stay there for 16 years …

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Romania, Racism, and Music

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Coldplay frontman Chris Martin personally invited the increasingly popular Romanian musician Babasha for a duet in front of thousands at the National Arena in Bucharest on Wednesday. Neither expected the crowd to react with such fury.

The issue is that Babasha is Rom and plays Manele music, a music that  many Romanians associate with criminality. He was booed.

Bad.

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Witch School

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In Romania, women from the impoverished Roma community see witchcraft as a means of taking social revenge. Under construction since 2011, the first witch school in the world aims to preserve their traditions. Between feminist discourse, 2.0 spells and commodified folklore, it is difficult to see clearly in the land of the occult.

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Timişoasa Exhibition

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An exhibition on the Roma Genocide during the Holocaust in Timişoara, Romania.

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Conference: Critical Romani Studies

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 ‘Exploring Racial Capitalism: Critical Romani Studies in Central and Eastern Europe’ is the closing conference of the research project ‘Precarious labor and peripheral housing. The socio-economic practices of Romanian Roma in the context of changing industrial relations and uneven territorial development’ conducted at Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, between 2020-2023.

The conference takes place tomorrow, October 19th, and can be attended remotely if registered.

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Polish article on Romanian Roma

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The Title says it all: “They live on garbage in the largest ghetto in Europe. “A school bag and money for school were impossible wishes’” It is an article on Pata Rat, a garbage dump on the outskirts of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, which has become a home for the excluded. The country’s fifth largest city, wealthy and with numerous cultural centres, hides people who are not treated as citizens.

Good to say, but also presents Roma as exactly that: The ones who are excluded. It also furthers stereotypes.

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Romania and Roma

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The Romanian President Klaus Iohannis promulgated on Wednesday the Law on the establishment of the National Museum of History and Culture of the Roma in Romania.  The museum will be based in the city of Bucharest.

“The purpose of the museum is to present and promote the history, culture and traditions of the Roma in Romania, to know domestically and internationally the contribution of this national minority to the evolution and modernization of Romanian society over time, to protect the memory of the victims of slavery and deportation in Transnistria, as well as to combat racism and discrimination. The heritage of the museum consists of collections of pieces and documents, established by the Pro-Europe Roma Party Association, a member of the Council of National Minorities, in collaboration with other public or private institutions and non-governmental organizations from the country and abroad, as well as pieces from transfers, donations and acquisitions, according to the law. The financing of the operation and activity of the museum is ensured from subsidies from the state budget, through the budget of the General Secretariat of the Government and from own revenues from specific activities, as well as from donations and sponsorships”, the law states.

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Romania, the Church, and Roma Slavery

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The Romanian Orthodox Church is refusing to apologise for the Roma slavery in Romanian lands, a slavery that lasted until 1862. They were parts of the problems, as there were a whole category of Roma who were slaves of the church.

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