{"id":1847,"date":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/31-05-2013-rroma-debate-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:26:38","slug":"31-05-2013-rroma-debate-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/31-05-2013-rroma-debate-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"31.05.2013 Rroma Debate in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Peters (2013) informs about \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe fate of Nizaqete Bislimi, a \u201cpoverty migrant\u201d from South Eastern Europe, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twho now works as a lawyer. It addresses the different facets of her life, such \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tas the difficulty to openly stand by her Rroma origin. She notes: <em>\u201cI&#8217;m not going to adjust my life. [&#8230;] I \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdid not want to be a Gypsy woman, I felt ashamed. [&#8230;] When I confessed it \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonce to a girl friend she said that: You? But you&#8217;re clean! And good in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tschool!\u201d <\/em>Peters shows the bias contained in the politicians\u2019 reasoning such \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tas for example Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich: They distinguish only between \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teconomically interesting, elite-migrants and poverty immigrants. That the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttransitions between these two extremes is continuous and that poverty \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\timmigrants can improve their attractiveness to the labour market, is not taken \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinto account in this simplistic views. There follows a detailed description of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tregulatory hurdles that Bislimi had to overcome to study law and get a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tresidence permit. The statistics on the predicted povertymigration are to be taken \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith caution: for example, the number of immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfrom 2007 to 2011 passed <em>\u201cfrom 64,000 in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2007 to 147,000 in 2011 more than doubling\u201d <\/em>but this number ignores \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthousands of seasonal workers, According to Peters even up to two-thirds. In \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\taddition, 20.9 percent of the Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants have a college \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdegree, a proportion higher than the one of the majority population in Germany, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhich is at 18.1 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the end of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tarticle Bislimi confirms the issue raised by Contact Point Rroma on visible and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinvisible Rroma and the reduction of Rroma identity around poverty: \u201cI \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpersonally know of lecturers at universities, students, entrepreneurs, doctors. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBut most do not identify themselves as Roma, fearing old stigmata, from which \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthey want to especially to protect their children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">G\u00fcrgen (2013) discusses \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe work of the regional office for job training, integration and democracy \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(RAA). The organisation is committed to the successful integration of immigrant \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tchildren in German schools, the focus currently lying on immigrated Rroma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tchildren. After initial reservations, especially on the teachers\u2019 side, the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twork of the organisation is now broadly recognised and brings a lot of positive \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texperiences. The aim is to successfully mediate between immigrant families and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpublic schools. On the families\u2019 side, according to the project spokeswoman \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSusanna Ismailovic, there are deeply rooted reservations about state \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinstitutions. A positive fact is that all the active auxiliary teachers speak \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRromanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Walther (2013) speaks \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tabout two \u201cinvisible Rroma\u201d who have successfully studied political science and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsubsequently spent two months at the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin Flensburg. The two young Rroma are a stark contrast to the usual stereotypes \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand image of Rroma propagated in the debate on poverty immigrants: They are not \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpoor, uneducated, work-shy and criminal but hard-working and intelligent. Diana \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIuliana Pirjol and Aleksandar Marinov come from a humble background in Romania \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand Bulgaria. They emphasise that their families support them in their efforts \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand see education as a valuable resource. Regarding the anti-Rroma policies in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWestern and Eastern Europe, Aleksandar Marinov states, <em>\u201cWe have no national state, to which we can feel connected, and must \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trely on the support of the government.\u201d<\/em> This really simple fact has been lost \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton many European government so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>G\u00fcrgen, Malene (2013) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPilotprojekt f\u00fcr Roma. In: <em>Neues \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDeutschland<\/em> vom 31.5.2013.<\/li>\n<li>Peters, Freia (2013) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDie Roma, die unbedingt nach oben wollte. In: <em>Die Welt<\/em> vom 30.5.2013.<\/li>\n<li>Walther, Antje (2013) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDen Roma auf der Spur. In: <em>Flensburger \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTageblatt<\/em> vom 28.5.2013.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peters (2013) informs about the fate of Nizaqete Bislimi, a \u201cpoverty migrant\u201d from South Eastern Europe, who now works as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[601,597,14,15,605],"tags":[92,35,63,24,23,649,133],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulgaria","category-germany","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","category-romania","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-racism","tag-roma","tag-rroma","tag-schools","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11116,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/11116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}