An article from the Daily Mail is really bad … It speaks about a proposal for migrants to the UK to take an oath of allegiance (which this paper seems to like) and bashes the critics who “ignore” the facts.
And if you read the facts about Rroma, well … They are again being used as a bad example to illustrate the ills of migration.
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– ‘Right on’ critics are ignoring problems caused by immigration, government tsar warns after Muslim groups condemn her ‘inflammatory call’ for newcomers to take a vow of allegiance. In: Daily Mail. 05.12.2016. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4000062/Swear-oath-live-Britain-Major-report-says-migrants-pledge-follow-values-soon-arrive-says-pace-immigration-communities.html [link-preview url=”http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4000062/Swear-oath-live-Britain-Major-report-says-migrants-pledge-follow-values-soon-arrive-says-pace-immigration-communities.html”]
Category Archives: United Kingdom
UK: More and More Travellers in the Pentecostal Church
An article about the huge impact of the Pentecostal church among Rroma and Travellers in the UK. This reflects the success of this church in France, Switzerland and to a lesser extend in Germany, but which definitively has a negative impact on Rroma tradition and customs, as these are superseded by church views. And this is not about fortune telling …
– How Gypsies have moved from fortune-telling to fervent Christianity. In: BBC News. 20.11.2016. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38016090 [link-preview url=”http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-38016090″]
UK: 48’000 Pounds Paid
An Irish pub chain was condemned to pay 48’000 pounds to a group of travellers who was denied access to one of their pubs.
Good!
– Wetherspoon pub chain apologise to Irish Travellers and pay over £48,000 in landmark David vs Goliath discrimination case. In: The Irish Post. 17.11.2016. http://irishpost.co.uk/wetherspoon-pub-chain-apologise-irish-travellers-pay-48000-landmark-david-vs-goliath-discrimination-case/ [link-preview url=”http://irishpost.co.uk/wetherspoon-pub-chain-apologise-irish-travellers-pay-48000-landmark-david-vs-goliath-discrimination-case/”]
UK: Commemoration
A UK Traveller who won the Victoria Cross in World War One is being remembered!
– Gypsy First World War hero honoured in Scunthorpe. In: The Traveller’s Times. 11.11.2016. http://travellerstimes.org.uk/News/Gypsy-First-World-War-hero-honoured-in-Scunthorpe.aspx [link-preview url=”http://travellerstimes.org.uk/News/Gypsy-First-World-War-hero-honoured-in-Scunthorpe.aspx”]
During the Remembrance Day in the UK, an article that cites the many Rroma and Travellers who died in World War One.
May they rest in peace.
– Paving stone to be unveiled for Scunthorpe Victoria Cross recipient on Remembrance Sunday. In: Scunthorpe Telegraph. 08.11.2016. http://www.scunthorpetelegraph.co.uk/paving-stone-to-be-unveiled-for-scunthorpe-victoria-cross-recipient-on-remembrance-sunday/story-29878935-detail/story.html
Brexit and Rroma
More on the worries of minorities in the UK after the Brexit vote…
– After-Brexit Worries. In: America, the National Catholic Review. http://www.americamagazine.org/issue/after-brexit-worries [link-preview url=”http://www.americamagazine.org/issue/after-brexit-worries”]
UK: Rroma Insecure
A new report by a think tank shows that Rroma in the UK are deeply insecure following the Brexit vote and the subsequent uncertainty and increased anti-immigrant rhetoric. There are an estimated 80 to 300’000 Rroma in the UK, and the EU was contributing around 1.1 Bio pounds a year for their integration.
– Roma in UK ‘deeply insecure’ after vote to leave EU, thinktank says. In: The Guardian. 24.10.2016. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/24/roma-in-uk-deeply-insecure-after-vote-to-leave-eu-thinktank-says [link-preview url=”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/24/roma-in-uk-deeply-insecure-after-vote-to-leave-eu-thinktank-says”]
UK and Adoption
Two young Rroma children who were removed in London from their parent’s home (at birth and at the age of 15 months) are now allowed to be given for adoption following a ruling of the High Court.
The children were traken away against their parents’ will because of the poverty and squalid conditions they lived in. The parent, Rroma from Hungary, meanwhile returned to Hungary.
Here, the well being of the children was used as an argument. But is it really sufficient to deprive them of their parents and to deprive the parents of their children?
– Roma sisters should be adopted, the High Court rules. In: Stowe. 19.10.2016. http://www.marilynstowe.co.uk/2016/10/19/roma-sisters-should-adopted-the-high-court-rules/ [link-preview url=”http://www.marilynstowe.co.uk/2016/10/19/roma-sisters-should-adopted-the-high-court-rules/”]
UK Media Slammed for Racism
The ECRI, the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance slammed the UK press for using ““offensive, discriminatory and provocative terminology” and fuelling the rise in racist and xenophobic attacks after the Brexit vote.”
Bad, but the sad truth…
– The EU just slammed the UK’s media, and only ONE British paper bothered to report it properly. In: The Canary. 10.10.2016. http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/10/eu-just-slammed-uks-media-one-british-paper-bothered-properly-report-images/ [link-preview url=”http://www.thecanary.co/2016/10/10/eu-just-slammed-uks-media-one-british-paper-bothered-properly-report-images/”]
UK: Nottinghamshire and West Yorkshire and Hate Crimes
The police of Nottinghamshire and West Yorkshire have launched initiatives aiming at reducing and preventing hate crime. In Nottinghamshire, this is explicitly geared towards Rroma and Travellers while in Yorkshire, this is more general.
Good that they do it, bad that is is required.
– Notts police back campaign to stop hate crimes. In: Gainsborough Standard. 10.10.2016. http://www.gainsboroughstandard.co.uk/news/notts-police-back-campaign-to-stop-hate-crimes-1-8173119
– West Yorkshire Police Launch Hate Crime Awareness Campaign. In: West Yorkshire Police. 07.10.2016. https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/news/west-yorkshire-police-launch-hate-crime-awareness-campaign [link-preview url=”http://www.gainsboroughstandard.co.uk/news/notts-police-back-campaign-to-stop-hate-crimes-1-8173119
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Glasgow Girls
An interview of one of the cast of the play “Glasgow Girls” currently running in the UK and, among the girls in the play casts a young Rromni from Kosovo and her plight as a refugee in Scottland.
– Interview with Roanna Davidson from the cast of Glasgow Girls. In: London Theatre. 26.09.2016. https://www.londontheatre1.com/news/148085/interview-roanna-davidson-cast-glasgow-girls/ [link-preview url=””]
UK: 1st Year Pupils’ Statistics
The UK released comprehensive statistics about the performance and capabilities of 1st year school children. As is the case in the UK, ethnicity is also recorded. Rroma and travellers’ children are doing particularly badly in this context. Not surprising if one consider that (a) most Rroma are very recent migrants from Eastern Europe and Balkans and (b) integrated Rroma almost never reveal their identity openly.
– Phonics results rise again but writing falls behind at KS1. In: Schools Week. 29.09.2016. http://schoolsweek.co.uk/phonics-results-rise-again-but-writing-falls-behind-at-ks1/ [link-preview url=”http://schoolsweek.co.uk/phonics-results-rise-again-but-writing-falls-behind-at-ks1/”]
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