A video on the statements of some VOX politicians in Spain saying that “Gitanos” are not Spaniards. VOX is a populist extreme right party. Here, Roma are reacting.
One needs to note that Roma were in Spain before Spain conquered the entire country 1n 1492.
An article in El Pais about Roma resistqance and the new generation. Unfortunately, they mix up their history. They say six centuries in Europe. Roma have effectively been for six centuries in Western Europe, but for much longer in the Balkan and in Greece.
This is always the same misreading of history, and from a normally good paper. And in addition they state “Roma people”… Would they say Spanish people? Or just Spaniards?
Annoying.
The Romanian Romani actress and directo Alina Şerban was awarded a prize as young talent in the ‘Gypsy’ Culture Award from the Instituto de Cultura Gitana in Madrid.
An article about the small Cale community in Tenerife. They are apparently in the island since the 1940s.
The book “Pueblo Gitano. 600 años de historia y cultura en España” [The Gitanos People: 600 Years of History and Culture in Spain] coordinated by Gonzalo Montaño, Joan M. Oleaque, and Arnau Vilaró, dismantles six centuries of silence, prejudice, and official narratives about Roma history.
Too bad they used the Gitanos name and not the endonym, “Cale”.
“The first step must be taken by oneself – to believe that one can achieve everything one dreams of,” says Romani writer and activist Sally Cortés in an interview.
An overview of the current situation, progress, and challenges faced by Roma in Spain.
Mercedes Porras, a Romani activist and curator of the exhibition The Roma people in Catalonia: history and culture, which can be seen at the Museum of the History of Catalonia until August 2, 2026 is part of the commemoration of the 275th anniversary of the Great Raid of 1749 and the 600th anniversary of the arrival of the Roma people to the peninsula.
Apparently, there has been a violent fight between Roma and Moroccans near Barcelona over an illegal shop.
Bad.
The Spanish city of Denia commemorated the liberation 275 years ago of nearly 300 Romnja and children who were arrested in a raid against Roma in 1749 that took place throughout Spain, incarcerated in the local fortress and only liberated a year later.
For 600 years, Spain has been home to the Gitano people. To mark this anniversary, Pope Francis sent a letter to the community, encouraging them to “face the future with hope.”
Another one of those “statistics”. Here, it states that only 29% of Roma are getting the minimum living income. It then proceeds to conclude that 71% of Roma who are entitled to this benefit are not receiving it.
Spot the issues? 1. How many Roma are there? No one knows for sure. 2. The author is assuming that all Roma are poor. Which is not the case.
Bad journalism, even worse arithmetics.
An interview in the Czech press of members of the Barcelona Gypsy Balkan Orchestra, a music group that while not Romano, plays many Roma songs from the Balkans.
A route through Barcelona is quite different from the ones that take place in the city centre and which aim to show the beautiful side of Barcelona. Organized by EMIC Maridadges Culturals and the Catalan Institute of Anthropology (ICA), in the framework of Anthropology Week, it is called La ciutat dels oblidats. It is led by the historian Montse Solé and wants to show the city that is often not explained. In other words, visit the places where mainly the Roma population settled, and which were on the outskirts of Barcelona.
An article on the Spanish Cali but also on other Romnja in Sport.
Not only did she score the winning goal for her team, taking home the women’s world cup, but she is also the first Romni to do so. Congratulations.
And condolences, as she lost her father that week-end.
More than forty people from the Roma community, among them refugees from Ukraine participate here in a “protected space” in a symposium on the management of traumas and their healing, for strengthening and empowering oneself.
Roxanna-Lorainne Witt, co-founder of the association Save Space and co-organizer of the symposium, explains in an interview for DW: “Who strengthens those people, who are strong for all of us? How are role models supported, so that strengthen themselves, while they themselves often have to work without stable perspectives and structures? Normal experiences – such as seeing the sea once in a lifetime – are often completely undervalued.”
The Andalusian Gitanos Sociocultural Centre, in collaboration with the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Granada, is organising a Workshop on Health and the Gitanos Community. It aim is to make the students of the Faculty aware of the values of the Gitanos culture, the socio-sanitary situation and the idiosyncrasies of this group.
The contents of the Workshop will deal with:
– History and cultural values of Gitanos.
– Current situation of the Roma community.
– Experiences of Roma men and women in the health field.
One of the great voices of Flamenco died: José Cortes “Pansequito”.
May he rest in peace!
The Delegation of Ethnic Minorities presented a program for the Day of the Andalusian Gypsies. The Andalusian Roma Day, is celebrated on November 22.
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