{"id":1567,"date":"2014-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/15-08-2014-saint-etienne-displaced-rroma-live-in-the-streets\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:42:09","slug":"15-08-2014-saint-etienne-displaced-rroma-live-in-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/15-08-2014-saint-etienne-displaced-rroma-live-in-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"15.08.2014 Saint-\u00c9tienne: displaced Rroma live in the streets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brancato (2014) reports \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton the fate of some 200 Rroma who were expelled from their informal settlements \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin mid-July. Since then, they have been wandering in the streets of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSaint-\u00c9tienne and are regularly prevented by the authorities from setting up a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcamp at a new place. The organisation Solidarit\u00e9 Rom calls for a round table \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith the Rroma and local authorities to discuss the issue of accommodation, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\temployment and integration. Meanwhile, the organization provides the Rroma with \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe essentials. However, the Saint-\u00c9tienne\u2019s government seems to have no \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinterest in integrating the Rroma, as the security advisor of the mayor, Claude \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLiogier, shows: it is not the duty of the city to find jobs for the Rroma, he \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstates. He adds that he thinks that the lifestyle of the Rroma is very \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdifferent from the customs of France. Thereby, Liogier reproduces almost an identical \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treasoning as the one of Manuel Valls at end of last year when justifying the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcontinuous expulsion of Rroma. Liogier does not seem to be aware of that this \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tis an extremely one-sided and politicised interpretation of culture. Pierre \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRachet, president of Solidarit\u00e9 Rom, states almost the exact opposite: some \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthirty Rroma families, who were part of an integration program in Saint-\u00c9tienne \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ta few years ago, now live integrated and have steady jobs. Repeatedly, the media \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsuggest that poverty, illiteracy, educational alienation, abundance of children \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tor living in slums are part of Rroma-culture. That these are rather the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsymptoms of exclusion and socio-economic hardships is hidden most of the time. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma belong to all social classes and should not to be equated with an underclass, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tas it is claimed repeatedly, also by self-appointed Rroma-experts. In France, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthere are living 110,000 to 130,000 Rroma, the majority of them integrated and since \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgenerations. Eventually they should also be addressed in the media (compare \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDespagne 2014).<\/p>\n