{"id":1822,"date":"2014-05-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/30-05-2014-celebration-of-saint-sara-in-saintes-maries-de-la-mer\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T15:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T14:31:55","slug":"30-05-2014-celebration-of-saint-sara-in-saintes-maries-de-la-mer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/30-05-2014-celebration-of-saint-sara-in-saintes-maries-de-la-mer\/","title":{"rendered":"30.05.2014 Celebration of Saint Sara in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Dunlop (2014) reports the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tannual procession in honour of Saint Sara in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, taking \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tplace on the 24th and 25th of May. According to legend, Sara was the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tservant of the three holy Marys who came to France as a result of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpersecution of the Christians and founded a Christian community there. Another \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texplanation is that Sarah-la-Kali, as Saint Sara is also called, is a Christian \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmodification of the Hindu Goddess Kali. This hypothesis is supported by the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIndian origin of Rroma. During the procession, a statue of the saint is carried \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfrom the church to the sea. The ceremony attracts thousands of tourists and goes \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tagainst the usual negative image of the Rroma. For the incumbent mayor of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSaintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Roland Chassain of the UMP, this is not a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcontradiction. Nicolas Sarkozy is said to appreciate riding and the music of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe Rroma very much. Immigration policy is another matter, he states. With this, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDunlop points to a contradiction that is insufficiently discussed. When it \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcomes to economic incentives, such as the famous St. Sara festival, the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprejudices are happily laid aside for once. However, this tolerance disappears \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tquickly when it comes to the removal of informal settlements, when the Rroma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tare again the hated minority: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cGitanes, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTigani, Roma, Gypsies &#8211; call them what you will, this is one day a year when, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin the remote marshlands of the Camargue, they shed their minority status and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbecome the majority. The sleepy seaside town, a stronghold of the National \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFront but ruled by the centre-right UMP, is transformed, the locals are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\toutnumbered. \u201cI am not anti-Gypsy\u201d, protests Mayor Roland, \u201cbut their young are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnot disciplined, it has changed. It was different 40 years ago.\u201d\u201d<\/em> However, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRoland neglects in his explanation important historical and political \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tupheavals. Not the young generation, the continued marginalization of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tminority and economic crises lead to an escalation of the conflict between the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tminority and right-wing nationalist groups.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dunlop, Tessa (2014) Gypsy beat in France&#8217;s \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconservative south. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">BBC News online<\/em> vom 30.5.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-27617492\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-27617492<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dunlop (2014) reports the annual procession in honour of Saint Sara in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, taking place on the 24th and 25th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[596,14,15],"tags":[637,9,24,23],"class_list":["post-1822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-france","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","tag-festival","tag-music","tag-roma","tag-rroma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12350,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822\/revisions\/12350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}