An exhibition in the ETH Zurich.
Category Archives: News Switzerland
Lausanne, Roma, and School
Roma families were recently evicted from a building that was deemed insalubrious. Now the children are in the street and at risk to be out of school.
Bad.
- À la rue, des enfants roms risquent le décrochage scolaire. In: 20 Minutes (CH). 23.09.2024. https://www.20min.ch/fr/story/expulsion-a-lausanne-a-la-rue-des-enfants-roms-risquent-le-decrochage-scolaire-103185261
- La Borde fermée, des écoliers roms sont livrés à la rue. In: 24 Heures. 23.09.2024. https://www.24heures.ch/fermeture-de-la-borde-des-ecoliers-roms-sont-livres-a-la-rue-672527789426
- Comment l’école vaudoise tend la main aux élèves roms. In: 24 Heures. 27.09.2024. https://www.24heures.ch/lecole-vaudoise-tend-la-main-aux-eleves-roms-sans-abris-625044223191
Switzerland and Travellers
A series or reportages among travelling Roma who come to Switzerland over the summer.
- Horizons itinérants: une immersion avec les gens du voyage qui viennent en Suisse. In: RTS. 17.08.2024. https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/2024/article/horizons-itinerants-une-immersion-avec-les-gens-du-voyage-qui-viennent-en-suisse-28599858.html
Google Translate Romanes
Nice to see that google translate allows for translations in Romanes. It definitively has a bias towards Vlach Romanes, which is not the most common Romanes, but this is a good start! The choices of words on World, to think, and a few others show this bias, but on the other hand, they still use the old Romanes for “life”, which is not Vlach.
Wonder how this was compiled…
Bulgaria, Roma, Beggars, and Switzerland
Due to the presence of s few Roma beggars from Bulgaria in Bern, members of the police in charge of foreigners went to Burgas, Bulgaria, together with journalists from the Tages-Anzeiger.
They do report on the poverty, precarity, and dreadful living conditions, but also speak (rather lest someone speak) about Roma chiefs, who, when owed money that is not repaid, “forces” people to work, “for example as a beggar” in Switzerland. They also say that begging is an important source of income.
Not when the average income of a beggar is less than 20 francs. There are other means that are way more lucrative.
- Dieses Elend treibt Roma zum Betteln nach Bern. In: Tages Anzeiger. 24.06.2024. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/betteln-in-bern-spurensuche-in-einem-roma-dorf-in-bulgarien-641085761016?gift_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJldGFqMjEyODI3MyIsImlhdCI6MTcxOTI5OTg4MSwiZXhwIjoxNzM1MDY3ODgxLCJ0ZW5hbnQiOiJ0YWdlc2FuemVpZ2VyIiwidW5pdHlJZCI6IjY0MTA4NTc2MTAxNiIsImp0aSI6IjFkYTFhNzc0Y2YwOTBjMjI4NjFmZDhmNDJjNjM3OWFmODg5Mjg0YjNjZGExNTQ1ODhmMTgyZmQ4M2NlNmEyMjgifQ.2CvOUpsfY8KlRM70ytTTqnuGLN6gcHIvUEH5aMQIpwA
Switzerland and Eugenics
An excellent article and a reminder of the fact that Switzerland was at the forefront of the eugenics movement that led ultimately to the Holocaust. The article focuses more on Yenische and less on Roma, but these theories were applied also to Roma.
- Gesittete Grausamkeit. In: Republik. 22.06.2024. https://www.republik.ch/2024/06/22/gesittete-grausamkeit
Lausanne: Expulsion
Roma living in an unused building in Lausanne have been ordered by a tribunal to leave the place by July 1st. Where to and how remains to be seen.
- Le Tribunal ordonne l’expulsion des Roms. In: 24 Heures. 13.06.2024. https://www.24heures.ch/borde-47-a-lausanne-le-tribunal-ordonne-lexpulsion-des-roms-942005703226
Lausanne: Expulsion or not?
A judge is set to decide whether Roma who live in a building in Lausane will be expulsed or can remain there until the end of the month.
- Les Roms seront-ils expulsés? In: 24 Heures. 04.06.2024. https://www.24heures.ch/lausanne-les-roms-de-la-borde-seront-ils-expulses-703919605405
Beggars
A reportage on Roma beggars in Lausanne. Now, there are also Bulgarian Roma.
- À la rencontre des mendiants roms. In: Tribune de Genève. 02.06.2024. https://www.tdg.ch/reportage-a-la-rencontre-des-mendiants-roms-a-lausanne-578714319214
Switzerland and Roma Refugees
An article about the current allegations against Roma refugees from the Ukraine in Switzerland. They are accused of having false Ukrainian papers or having bought them and are used by politicians to lobby against the special status granted to Ukrainian refugees in Switzerland.
- Wieso sprechen die denn Ungarisch? In: WOZ. 23.05.2024. https://www.woz.ch/2421/romnja-aus-der-ukraine/wieso-sprechen-die-denn-ungarisch/!5T4FF7C5ENRX
Bulgaria, Ukraine, and Switzerland
The Bulgarian press took the statements of the head of the Asylum system in the Canton of Bern for truth: That Roma used faked Ukrainian papers to abuse the Swiss Asylum system. The title is as false and racist: “Roma flock to Switzerland for aid with fake Ukrainian passports.” The picture used is also not relevant, as it shows carriages, which is definitively not the mean of travel chosen by the Ukrainian Roma who ask for asylum in Switzerland.
- Роми се стичат в Швейцария за помощи с фалшиви украински паспорти. In: Svobodno Slovo. 12.05.2024. https://svobodnoslovo.eu/svyat/romi-se-stichat-v-shveycariya-za-pomoshti-s-falshivi-ukrainski-pasporti/133601
Ukrainian Roma Children
There is an increasing number of Roma children from Transcarpathian Ukraine in need of integration in the education system in Switzerland. Besides the normal language barrier, the main challenge is that many of these children have never been to school in the Ukraine. This poses an even bigger challenge to the towns who have to integrate them.
- De plus en plus d’enfants roms ukrainiens doivent être scolarisés en Suisse. In: RTS. 13.05.2024. https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/geneve/2024/article/de-plus-en-plus-d-enfants-roms-ukrainiens-doivent-etre-scolarises-en-suisse-28501293.html
Switzerland and Roma Refugees
The Swiss minister in charge of refugees now stats that Ukrainian Roma with dual citizenship will have to leave Switzerland.
Only one little thing is not published: There are less than 10 cases that are officially acknowledged. And none on the Roma who are considered to be “problematic”.
Window dressing in politics. Shameful.
- «Ukrainische Roma mit zwei Pässen müssen die Schweiz verlassen». In: Tages Anzeiger. 09.05.2024. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/bundesrat-beat-jans-zu-ukraine-fluechtlingen-wenn-kantone-zu-wenig-fuer-die-integration-machen-soll-das-folgen-haben-615542145039?gift_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJldGFqMjEyODI3MyIsImlhdCI6MTcxNTI0NTcyMCwiZXhwIjoxNzMxMDEzNzIwLCJ0ZW5hbnQiOiJ0YWdlc2FuemVpZ2VyIiwidW5pdHlJZCI6IjYxNTU0MjE0NTAzOSIsImp0aSI6IjRkYmE4OWM4MDFkMTgxYzdiMTQ2NWUzNzJiYTkyYWY2NGZhM2YzZmUzMTllN2JlNDg4ZTg4NmFmODk1MGU0YTMifQ.AkR5p4P3jgAK_aSGaaGtdp8cX7_tTpBEMIfV6KjxBvo
Switzerland and Roma Refugees
The story of a small village that set up a special class for 6 Roma children from Ukrainian Roma refugees, only to see that they left.
This happens, but generally doesn’t happen just because of school. There are other pressures that are applied to those Roma mostly coming from Transcarpathian Ukraine where they lived in very hard conditions, literally overwhelming them. Some prefer simply to leave.
- Kleine Dorfschule fühlt sich von Roma-Familie hintergangen. In: Tages Anzeiger. 07.05.2024. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/schweizer-asylsystem-ausgenutzt-roma-familie-verlaesst-ossingen-halsueberkopf-398506054249
Switzerland and Roma Refugees
According to a Swiss paper, ten families of Roma have managed to obtain Ukrainian papers illegally and have cashed in social case money several times.
Ten families, and this is not even proven.
- Zehn Familien sollen ukrainische Pässe erschlichen haben. In: Sonntagszeitung. 05.05.2024. https://epaper.sonntagszeitung.ch/article/10000/10000/2024-05-05/4/133712820?signature=a1c71218b4bb6650c40996b6803c4020e595e72414569c05125c30072b170d7f
Switzerland and Roma Refugees
Another article about the “abuse” of the system by Ukrainian Roma. Allegedly, they have bought their papers or falsified them. Well, nothing proven here.
- Le statut S suscite le débat. In: La Tribune de Genève. 03.05.2024. https://www.tdg.ch/le-statut-de-protection-s-est-souvent-exploite-par-les-clans-roms-895524557727
Switzerland and Roma Refugees
Another article on the recent arrivals of Roma refugees from the Ukraine, mostly from the Transcarpathian region of the country. This follows the statements of the chief of the Bern refugee agency who made comments saying that Roma “abuse” the system, work in “clans” etc.
Bad.
- «Ein heikles Thema, aber wir dürfen nicht wegschauen». In: Tages Anzeiger. 03.05.3034. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/roma-aus-der-ukraine-wir-duerfen-nicht-wegschauen-836726163733
Switzerland: Again
Again, an article about the alleged “abuses” of the special status for Ukrainian Refugees by Roma in Switzerland. This time, it is via an interview of the head of the refugee department of the canton Bern. He panders the usual allegations, false papers, criminal clans, and all the same unproven junk.
He is lobbying against the special status for Ukrainians, and is using Roma for that purpose. Bad and racist.
- «Der Schutzstatus S wird von Roma-Clans ausgenutzt» IN: Tages Anzeiger. 03.05.2024. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/asyldirektor-roma-clans-nutzen-schutzstatus-s-aus-187809958806
- Berner Asyldirektor fordert Abschaffung des Schutzstatus S. In: Blick. 03.05.2024.https://www.blick.ch/politik/von-roma-missbraucht-berner-asyldirektor-fordert-abschaffung-des-schutzstatus-s-id19701238.html?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=share-button&utm_source=transactional
Lausanne: Closure Postponed
Roma who lived in a squat in Lausanne since the summer of 2023 and who should have been expelled by March 31st, refused to leave the premises. This postponed the entire operation.
- Les Roms refusent de quitter l’immeuble de la Borde. In: 24 Heures. 08.04.2024. https://www.24heures.ch/lausanne-les-roms-refusent-de-quitter-limmeuble-de-la-borde-340976321616
Lausanne: Thefts
The Bussigny suburb of Lausanne has seen an increase of thefts and burglaries. And the inhabitants (and the press) relate this to the recent influx of Roma refugees.
Bad.
- Des vols agitent Bussigny de speculations. In: 24 Heures. 04.04.2024. https://www.24heures.ch/ouest-lausannois-des-vols-agitent-bussigny-de-speculations-812360358207
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