{"id":1702,"date":"2013-03-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/22-03-2013-rroma-and-lunik-ix-in-slowakia\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:26:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:26:57","slug":"22-03-2013-rroma-and-lunik-ix-in-slowakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/22-03-2013-rroma-and-lunik-ix-in-slowakia\/","title":{"rendered":"22.03.2013 Rroma and Lunik IX in Slowakia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">When, during \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe 1980s, it was decided to renovate the old city of Kosice, a large part of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe local Rroma population which used to live in the historical centre was \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmoved out to the newly build Prefab Housing estate Lunik IX. Contact with the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trest of the population was not established, so Rroma were soon isolated and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLunik IX became what can be qualified as a ghetto. Alena Wagnerova (2013) questions \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprecisely this state of ghettoization. What the numerous journalists who travelled \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmissed in their standard reports is to take a look at the inside of apartments, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tan inside that contrary to the staircases and courtyards is clean, well \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmaintained and generally very much \u201cpetit bourgeois\u201d. She notes:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>The Roma distinguish between indoors and outdoors: indoors is maintained \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ta, outside is simply considered as a storage space associated which does not \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmatter is not even perceived. [&#8230;] The \u201cWhite\u201d are interested in the outdoor, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhich one sees, but the inside, where you could get closer look at the life of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe Roma, no one sees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wagnerkova \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthen draws a picture of the Rroma as the losers of the transformation from \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsocialism to post-socialist system. While full employment prevailed in the East \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBloc before 1989, after the fall of socialism, the number of jobs diminished \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdrastically. Especially affected were often poorly trained Rroma. During this \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttransition period, she identifies a constant, namely the tutelage and external \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tattribution of stereotypes on Rroma. This vicious circle leads to this negative \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texternal view of Rroma to be internalised among them. The ascription of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcollective guilt for negative actions of single individuals is a large concern, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbut this attitude is prevalent amongst the majority:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>\u201cAnd the culprit was not a Jew?\u201d Franz Kafka&#8217;s mother used ask, with worry \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin her voice, whenever they heard or read about a crime. [&#8230;] With Jews this \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twould no longer be allowed today, but with Roma the act of a single one them is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsufficient for all to be blamed. [&#8230;] The most important thing to understand is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat the Roma issue is a problem of poverty and not a problem of an \u201cinferior \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tethnic group,\u201d \u201cwhich now falls on us.\u201d This can certainly not be solved with an \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tincrease in social assistance, which leaves people in a state of passivity and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdependence, but only through employment and skills improvements.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wagnerova\u2019s article manages to present \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ta differentiated picture of the situation of Rroma in Slovakia. They are not \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmade pretty and not romanticized. Her article should be taken as an example for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tother journalists who report on Rroma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wagnerova, Alena (2013) Die Lehre von Lunik IX. 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