A podcast on Roma engaged in fighting against the extreme right in Romania on the eve of the new presidential elections.
The representation of people in schools says a lot about their condition. In this regard, that of the Roma raises questions in the Balkan countries: despite some real efforts, school textbooks remain very incomplete and perpetuate false ideas, as in Romania and Greece.
Good article, false history… Roma left earlier than indicated.
The first Romano orthodox priest was recently ordained in Romania. His name is Daniel Ganga. This means progress, as the Orthodox Church held Roma slaves till the late 19th century and very recently denied having had anything to do with the slavery of Roma.
An article about the representation of Romain Greece and Romania schoolbooks.
Good intentions, but stating that Roma arrived in the 14th century in Europe is also a misrepresentation …
They would never have had the opportunity to learn Greek …
So good intentions, and total lack of knowledge.
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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Gheorghe Sarau from Romania, a well known Romanes expert speaks about the importance of the international Romanes day.
A reprint of a Guardian article in the Ukrainian press about Roma palaces in Hășdat.
Both articles pander to sterotypes…
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.
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.
A book from 2023 about Rudari, a Vlach Roma group now found all over Europe. It investigates their migrations and history.
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 …
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.
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.
A square in Bucharest, Romania, will be named after the Roma activist Nicolae Gheorghe.
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Another article, this time in the Croatian Press about the Roma mansions of the Romanian town of Buzescu. This article never ceases to reappear, here under the title of “Roma Monaco”.
An exhibition on the Roma Genocide during the Holocaust in Timişoara, Romania.
An article about Manele, a modern form of Romani (or Roma) music in Romania. Using traditional Romani instruments and sounds, it also fuses other genres from the Balkans, Middle East, and India.
‘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.
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.
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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