The hunt for the Rroma who were expelled in July from their camp made it to the international press. The French are now trying to expel these Rroma from France, i.e. send them back to Romania.
Good read to see what is really going on.
– ‘Trying to run them out of town’: French police confront Roma. In: CBC News. 18.10.2016. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/roma-france-montreuil-eviction-1.3808464 [link-preview url=”http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/roma-france-montreuil-eviction-1.3808464″]
Two articles in the aftermath of the ban of begging in Lausanne. One by a photographer, Yves Leresche, who has been taking picture of these beggars in both Switzerland and Romania, and the other, on the actual effects of banning beggars. The bans are actually bad and make matter worse.
– Yves Leresche: «je m’étonne de l’absence de débat sur la mendicité» In: La Côte. 30.09.2016. http://www.lacote.ch/articles/regions/vaud/yves-leresche-je-m-etonne-de-l-absence-de-debat-sur-la-mendicite-1-2-585162
– A Genève, le bilan inquiétant de la loi anti-mendicité. In: Le Courrier. 29.09.2016. http://www.lecourrier.ch/142819/a_geneve_le_bilan_inquietant_de_la_loi_anti_mendicite [link-preview url=”http://www.lacote.ch/articles/regions/vaud/yves-leresche-je-m-etonne-de-l-absence-de-debat-sur-la-mendicite-1-2-585162″]
Montreuil again, where people who were expelled this summer still haven’t found proper housing; in Troyes, the plight of Rroma who haven’t found a place to stay; in Angers, the owner of a building squatted by Rroma cut them the water; in Strasbourg, in the East, they may have closed the camps, but the Rroma are still there; in Marseille, Rroma are again expelled; in the North, two Rroma are condemned for beating up a Romanian who threw racist insults at them; and finally, also in the North, Rroma who were expelled from a site are back.
– Montreuil : les soutiens des Roms veulent se faire entendre. In: Le Parisien. 30.09.2016. http://www.leparisien.fr/montreuil-93100/montreuil-les-soutiens-des-roms-veulent-se-faire-entendre-30-09-2016-6164793.php
– Montreuil: 60 jours à la rue dans la France «généreuse et solidaire» In: Mediapart. 26.09.2016. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/260916/montreuil-60-jours-la-rue-dans-la-france-genereuse-et-solidaire-0
– Montreuil : des économies annoncées pour redresser l’office HLM. In: Le Parisien. 29.09.2016. http://www.leparisien.fr/montreuil-93100/montreuil-des-economies-annoncees-pour-redresser-l-office-hlm-29-09-2016-6161805.php
– De nouvelles familles roms en errance boulevard Jules-Guesde à Troyes. In: L’Est Éclair. 02.10.20-16. http://www.lest-eclair.fr/570524/article/2016-10-02/de-nouvelles-familles-roms-en-errance-boulevard-jules-guesde-a-troyes
– Immeuble squatté : le bailleur coupe l’eau. In: Ouest France. 29.09.2016. http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/angers-49000/immeuble-squatte-le-bailleur-coupe-l-eau-4528480
– Strasbourg se débarrasse des bidonvilles, pas des Roms. In: Boursorama.com. 29.09.2016. http://www.boursorama.com/actualites/strasbourg-se-debarrasse-des-bidonvilles-pas-des-roms-507c0e4cce5ca06cc3fc6a5a02f4ae2d
– Roms : interpellée pour héberger, la Ville de Marseille fait expulser. In: La Marseillaise. 28.09.2016. http://www.lamarseillaise.fr/marseille/societe/52812-roms-interpellee-pour-heberger-la-ville-de-marseille-fait-expulser
– « Je ne voulais pas de Roms dans la famille » In: La Voix du Nord. 01.10.2016. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/52721/article/2016-10-01/je-ne-voulais-pas-de-roms-dans-la-famille
– Les Roms de la friche Bidermann de retour à Sainte-Henriette. In: La Voix du Nord. 29.09.2016. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/51789/article/2016-09-29/les-roms-de-la-friche-bidermann-de-retour-sainte-henriette [link-preview url=”http://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/angers-49000/immeuble-squatte-le-bailleur-coupe-l-eau-4528480″]
An illegal Rroma camp was closed in Germany near Kassel. Most of the residents were from Bulgaria and Romania.
– Stadt räumt illegalen Zeltplatz: Rumänen und Bulgaren hatten dort ihr Quartier. In: HNA. 23.09.2016. https://www.hna.de/kassel/bettenhausen-ort94136/stadt-raeumt-illegalen-zeltplatz-rumaenen-bulgaren-hatten-dort-quartier-6779730.html [link-preview url=””]
Again another article on the purported migration of Rroma to California. To put things in perspective: The police said that less than 500 Romanian Rroma applied for Ayslum. California is not that small …
– Roma Fleeing the EU’s ‘Broken Promise’ seek Asylum in the US, In: Foreign Policy. http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/22/roma-romania-migration-united-states/ [link-preview url=”http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/22/roma-romania-migration-united-states/”]
Guess what, lots of immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria, mostly Rroma – says who? – and thus “massive abuses” of the welfare system.
This article is typical of what should not be done: Sensation, generalisation, and ethnic branding…
SHAME.
There are more beggars in Zurich, some of which are Rroma from Romania. From the article one could think it is a real invasion, but well, it isn’t. If there are 50 of them, this is probably high.
Two music festivals in Romania. In Bistrita, on August 15th, and in Bucharest September 9 to 12.
Rroma beggars from Romania are camping in a park near a church in the centre of Zurich. And of course, all the clichés are there: clans, with its clan head (patriarchal structures), poor, stealing, etc.
Bad for Rroma in general, and bad that the press needs to say these are Rroma. They are poor people, that is all.
Less news on the front page means more on Rroma in the French Press. First, in the South, were legality seems not to be high on the priorities of the state in Montpellier. In that same city, residents are “exasperated” by a camp there. In Montaucran, in the South, a camp was closed; near Paris, two reportages on life in the camps; in Montreuil, camps are being dismantled; in Lyon, a report on the situation of Rroma in that city; in the North the mayor od a twon is accused of racism following the arson attack against a shop for Romanians and especially Rroma, while also in the North, a pedophile was targeting Rroma children.
This week, some news about Rroma in France. A camp was closed in Goussainville, near Paris; in Nanterre, on Paris’ outskirt, a camp is being closely monitored following a fire; a camp has been closed near Grenoble; in the North, a tribunal has requested the expulsion of a camp; in the North, a shop selling Romanian products to Rroma was torched – WORRYSOME!; and finally, some quite rich thieves, Rroma from Serbia, who lived in a house with all amenities and luxury products.
A report on begging in Stuttgart and on the actions of the police against it. Again, Rroma are seen as the main source of beggars (from Bulgaria, Slovakia, and from Romania). Clearly an amalgamation of Rroma to beggars …
A sad headline. In Romania, in a remote mountain village, nearly 40 young man and women were detained by a Rroma clan and de-facto held as slaves. The police indicted 38 people.
One can ask whether saying that the criminals are Rroma is relevant. We think not, as this only contributes to yet another negative stereotype. These are criminals, and should be judged as such. Ethnicity has lost nothing here.
Elie Wiesel, who just died, urged his native Romania to confront its past and acknowledge the deportation of Jews and Rroma from Romania. What this article misses, ist that most Rroma were not deported to camps but displaced to Transnistria n the North East where an unknown number died of hunger and illnesses.
An article on Romanian folk brass, and the tour of a group in Canada!
A set of nice photos of traditional Rroma in a village in Romania. From the look of it, Kalderaša.
Nice work, but this is exactly what perpetuates the stereotypes when not presented in context. This is a minority in a specific country where the villages are still mostly closer to the 19th than to the 21st centuries.
According to the world bank, Rroma in Romania are 10 times more likely to be poor than the rest of the population. One always wonder how one arrives at these numbers, as one doesn’t really know how many Rroma there are in Romania (officially not that many), but clearly, those that are visible are discriminated, and as a result are poorer.
Rroma are increasingly suffering from the restitution of housing that is slowly taking place in Romania. They are being expulsed more and more frequently.
A book by the French ethnologist Catherine Monnot about her conversations and interviews of Gabriela Cantia, a Romanian Rromni who emigrated to France and leaves close to Toulouse in a camp was just published.
A reportage on teenage pregnancies in Romania, and its inevitable conclusion that it affects many Rroma. While it is true that many young Rroma have children early (very early), ethnicity may not be the root cause.
No sexual education, no contraception are available in the countryside, and in addition, several of the free churches that are active in those regions are adamantly against both, resulting in a new phenomenon of large families among traditionally small Rroma ones.
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