{"id":1183,"date":"2014-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/17-09-2014-the-visible-rroma-of-sweden\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T07:33:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T06:33:19","slug":"17-09-2014-the-visible-rroma-of-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/17-09-2014-the-visible-rroma-of-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"17.09.2014 The visible Rroma of Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gyld\u00e9n (2014) reports about begging Rroma in Sweden. The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvery detailed article reports explicitly about the life circumstances of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\timmigrant Rroma in Sweden, who earn their revenue with begging, playing music \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tor with collecting scrap. On the other hand, the journalist presents the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSwedish political system and the local economic mode that, according to the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tjournalist, is not designed and adapted to begging with its \u201cprotestant work ethic\u201d. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlyd\u00e9n article attempts, as many before him, to portray the life of the Rroma, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbut he ends up addressing only the living conditions of a minority of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tminority: \u201cThey live there, at the edge of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ta clearing under birch trees, fir trees and squirrels. One moment, they are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treminiscent of trolls from myths. But the lives of Corneliu, Aurelian, Florina \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand others \u2013 forty people in total \u2013 have nothing of a children\u2019s story. These \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRoma, who originally come from Bacau (250 km north of Bucharest), leave their \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcamp near a terminus of the metro, in the suburbs, every morning to pursue \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttheir \u201cjobs\u201d: the sidewalks of Stockholm, its parks, its metros. Some play the accordion; \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tothers collect returnable bottles from the trashcans. Most of them beg.\u201d<\/em> In \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\this argument, Gyld\u00e9n depicts the scenario of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma as poverty migrants, who, since the advent of free movement of workers \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith Romania and Bulgaria now try their luck in Sweden. But he ignores an \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\timportant part of reality: First of all, critical studies show that there is no \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmass immigration of Rroma to the north. In addition, there are also ethnic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRomanians, Bulgarians and other ethnic groups from South Eastern Europe, which \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmigrate to Western Europe. Furthermore, Gyld\u00e9n negates the well and very well educated Rroma, which \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talso form part of the migrants or have lived in Sweden for a longer period of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttime. According to estimates of the Rroma Foundation, they constitute between \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t15,000 and 20,000 people. After all, Gyld\u00e9n relativizes, with \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treference to a Swedish journalist, the stereotype of organized begging \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnetworks: those emerged, after detailed investigations, as a construct.<\/p>\n