{"id":1569,"date":"2013-11-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/15-11-2013-european-rroma-policies-from-an-american-perspective\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:43:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:43:02","slug":"15-11-2013-european-rroma-policies-from-an-american-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/15-11-2013-european-rroma-policies-from-an-american-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"15.11.2013 European Rroma Policies from an American Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Bilefsky \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(2013) of the New York Times comments on the events surrounding the European \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tintegration, respectively, non-integration initiatives on Rroma. On the background \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof the trial against 27 Croatian Rroma who are accused of child trafficking and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teducation towards delinquency, he raises the question of the role of the Rroma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin European society. However, his questions are clumsy: he sees the Rroma as \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbeing inevitably forced to delinquency by widespread poverty and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdiscrimination. But poverty does not automatically mean a drift into \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tillegality. Such a concept corresponds to conservative views, seeing all poor \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma as embedded in hierarchical, exploitative structures. The defence of the 27 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\taccused Rroma have put forward a questionable traditions of otherness in their \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\targuments. Therefore Bilefskys provocative question in the title of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tarticle: <em>\u201e[the] members of the defense \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tteam offered an unusual legal defense: rather than focusing on the argument \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat the Roma are forced to resort to crime because of poverty and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdiscrimination, it claimed that in some cases they were simply following \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tage-old Roma traditions and generally operate outside the norms of society in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00abthe style of the Middle Ages.<\/em> \u00bb<em>\u201c<\/em>\u00a0 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis view of a cultural otherness is precisely the one favoured by \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tManuel Valls and conservatives. The fact that the defence used this to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trehabilitate the defendant Rroma is particularly questionable and raises the question \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof their integrity. The prosecution, however, favoured a perspective of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\torganized crime: the Rroma children were deliberately educated to become thieves \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbecause of the widespread impunity they have as children and they are part of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tclan-like structures. This, however, according to Bilefsky confusing analysis, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tis not a cultural explanation. Then what? He takes a liberal attitude towards the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcited opinion: The Rroma, as he suggests in a concluding quote have to try to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\temancipate themselves through their own efforts. That this also requires the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treadiness of the public should not be forgotten.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bilefsky, Dan (2013) Are the Roma Primitive, or Just Poor? In: New York Times online vom \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t19.10.2013.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/20\/sunday-review\/are-the-roma-primitive-or-just-poor.html?_r=0\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/20\/sunday-review\/are-the-roma-primitive-or-just-poor.html?_r=0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilefsky (2013) of the New York Times comments on the events surrounding the European integration, respectively, non-integration initiatives on Rroma. 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