The Kurier (2013) reports on the Austrian Norbert Ceipek. Ceipek is the head of the “Drehscheibe Augarten“, an organisation which takes care of delinquent children and young people in Vienna. He came under public criticism for his statements that the majority of apprehended children were member of begging gangs and that village chiefs sent them to beg, steal or into prostitution in the West. Key point of criticism are the controversial status and role of beggar gangs and Rroma kings among the Rroma. While representatives such as Ceipek see a massive presence of begging gangs and pimps, critics see the structures of exploitation described as massively exaggerated and more as an exception than as the norm. One needs in any case to criticise the representation the exploitation of Rroma by Rroma as a normal state. This perspective reduces the complexity of the social disintegration of Rroma to a problem of self-repression, creating a wrong counterweight to the social exclusion.

Source:

• Kurier (2013) Wenn die Armut in den Westen schnappt. In: Kurier (Österreich) vom 6.6.2013. 

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