The situation of Roma in the Ukraine … Pogroms are becoming the norm.
– Attacked and abandoned: Ukraine’s forgotten Roma. In: Al Jazeera. 23.11.2018. https://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/europe/2018/11/attacked-abandoned-ukraine-forgotten-roma-181121121230852.html
Criticism of the current Slovak Government package on Roma employment. Too little, too late, and an unclear concept…
– Vládny balík k podpore zamestnávania Rómov prišiel neskoro. In: SME. 21.11.2018. https://ekonomika.sme.sk/c/20967139/vladny-balik-k-podpore-zamestnavania-romov-prisiel-neskoro.html
No comments, but it is not good for all…
– ‘Leave your toys, today you married your bride’: Boy, 10, ‘marries’, eight-year-old girl in Romanian gypsy ceremony. In: The Daily Mail. 20.11.2018. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6409933/Boy-10-marries-eight-year-old-girl-Romanian-gypsy-ceremony.html
It is literally everywhere… Bad for us.
– ‘The party is over’: Rome police evict mobsters from eight luxury villas. In: The London Free Press. 20.11.2018. https://lfpress.com/news/world/rome-police-evict-plan-to-demolish-alleged-mobsters-homes/wcm/af3a0882-f715-4d40-a5ed-8be73d078f26
– Rome police seize ‘gaudfather’ villas. In: Eurasia Times. http://www.eurasiatimes.org/en/21/11/2018/rome-police-seize-gaudfather-villas/
Mothers of handicapped children have been manifesting in Bulgaria to complain about the help they get and about the minister in charge, Mr. Simeonov who said disparaging things about Roma suggesting among others that they created the handicaps so as to get money from the state.
He should be fired.
– Bulgarie : des mères d’enfants handicapés contre le pouvoir. In: Handicap. https://informations.handicap.fr/art-bulgarie-mamans-enfants-handicap-Simeonov-63-11306.php
Further raids on the houses of the notorious Casamonica Mafia clan of Sinti. They have made the deadlines for a while now, and this is bad publicity for Roma overall.
– Casamonica, maxi-blitz per abbattere otto ville del clan al Quadraro: in campo 500 uomini e la sindaca Virginia Raggi. In: Il Fatto Quotidiano. 20.11.2018. https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2018/11/20/casamonica-maxi-blitz-per-abbattere-otto-ville-del-clan-al-quadraro-in-campo-500-uomini-e-la-sindaca-virginia-raggi/4776855/
– Chi sono i Casamonica: tutto sulla famiglia che controlla Roma Sud. In: Roma Today. 20.11.2018. http://www.romatoday.it/cronaca/chi-sono-i-casamonica.html
– Rome police seize eight Casamonica mafia villas. In: BBC News. 20.11.2018. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46275708
The Italian government is evicting migrants and Roma, with hundreds of them put on the street. This is not a good thing.
– Hundreds of Refugees, Roma Homeless in Italian Eviction Drive. In: VOA News. 14.11.2018. https://www.voanews.com/a/hundreds-of-refugees-and-roma-homeless-in-italian-eviction-drive/4658830.html
– Hundreds of refugees and Roma homeless in Italian eviction drive. In: Relief Web. 14.11.2018. https://reliefweb.int/report/italy/hundreds-refugees-and-roma-homeless-italian-eviction-drive
Seems that UK is not exactly the right place for travellers nowadays…
– Gypsy and traveller families ‘hounded out’ of areas in act of ‘social cleansing’ as councils impose sweeping bans. In: The independent. 19.11.2018. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gypsy-traveller-families-people-sweeping-ban-land-social-cleansing-england-a8637741.html
TO be expected, this site gloating about the threats from a mayor of an Italian town, threatening to bulldoze Roma camps and make them pay for it.
Or when idiocy meets demagogy…
– Populist Italian Mayor Promises to Bulldoze Roma Squatter Camp and Make Them Pay For It. 18.11.2018. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2018/11/18/populist-italian-mayor-promises-to-bulldoze-roma-squatter-camp-and-make-them-pay-for-it/
Many news on camps this week. Main topic, a camp near Paris in Buchelay. The camp is slated for closure but there is no alternative. In the North, a collective defending Roma is set for the long term. They have done a real good job so far. In Western France, in Nantes, a camp burnt down after a fight. In Toulouse, 30 children live in unacceptable conditions; in Sète, in the South of France, a camp is slowly emptying; in Nice, a place to help children after school has just opened; and in the Alps, a squat was evacuated.
– Buchelay : les Roms ne veulent pas partir. In: Le Parisien. 16.11.2018. http://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/buchelay-les-roms-ne-veulent-pas-partir-16-11-2018-7944630.php
– Buchelay : expulsion imminente pour les Roms. In: Le Parisien. 12.11.2018. http://www.leparisien.fr/yvelines-78/buchelay-expulsion-imminente-pour-les-roms-12-11-2018-7940985.php
– Yvelines. Buchelay : les Roms à la rue après l’expulsion ? In: Actu.fr. 13.11.2018. https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/buchelay_78118/yvelines-buchelay-roms-rue-apres-lexpulsion_19526313.html
– Yvelines. Mantes-la-Jolie : pas de rencontre entre les Roms et le sous-préfet. In: Actu.fr. 16.11.2018. https://actu.fr/ile-de-france/mantes-la-jolie_78361/yvelines-mantes-jolie-pas-rencontre-entre-roms-le-sous-prefet_19589443.html
– Pourquoi le collectif roms de Roubaix et environs veut travailler dans la durée. In: La Voix du Nord. 14.11.2018. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/488634/article/2018-11-14/pourquoi-le-collectif-roms-de-roubaix-et-environs-veut-travailler-dans-la-duree
– Après un « été terrible » d’expulsions, le collectif Roms guette l’éclaircie. In: L Voix du Nord. 15.11.2018. http://www.lavoixdunord.fr/489044/article/2018-11-15/apres-un-ete-terrible-d-expulsions-le-collectif-roms-guette-l-eclaircie
– Après une rixe, un camp de Roms brûle, au sud de Nantes. In: Actu.fr. 16.11.2018. https://actu.fr/pays-de-la-loire/bouaye_44018/apres-une-rixe-camp-roms-brule-sud-nantes_19585369.html
– Sète : le camp de roms s’est vidé peu à peu. In: Midi Libre. 16.11.2018. https://www.midilibre.fr/2018/11/16/sete-le-camp-de-roms-sest-vide-peu-a-peu,4864388.php
– Sète : le camp de Roms se vide peu à peu. In: Midi Libre. 15.11.2018. https://www.midilibre.fr/2018/11/15/sete-le-camp-de-roms-se-vide-peu-a-peu,4862592.php
– Trente enfants dans un campement indigne aux Arènes. In: La Dépèche. 16.11.2018. https://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2018/11/16/2907646-trente-enfants-dans-un-campement-indigne-aux-arenes.html
– Un local pour soutenir les enfants après l’école. In: Nice Matin. 17.11.2018. https://www.nicematin.com/vie-locale/un-local-pour-soutenir-les-enfants-apres-l-ecole-277908
– Les Roms ont été évacués du moulin. In: Le Dauphiné. https://www.ledauphine.com/haute-savoie/2018/11/14/les-roms-ont-ete-evacues-du-moulin
More articles on the movie highlighting the fate of a Roma family in France. Good that the coverage is there.
– 8 avenue Lénine : “Un film sur les Roms mais aussi sur les Français”. In: Grazia. 18.11.2018. https://www.grazia.fr/news-et-societe/societe/8-avenue-lenine-film-documentaire-rom-907837
– Le docu “8, avenue Lénine” a suivi une famille rom roumaine pendant 15 ans. In: France 24. 15.11.2018. https://www.france24.com/fr/20181114-8-avenue-lenine-documentaire-famille-rom-roumaine-film
– 8 avenue Lénine : le combat d’une famille rom pour l’intégration (documentaire. In: CCFD Terre Solidaires. 13.11.2018. https://ccfd-terresolidaire.org/infos/migrations/roms-gitans-manouches/8-avenue-lenine-le-6260
– Une bouffée d’oxygène en ces temps moisis. In: Mediaspart. 19.11.2018. https://blogs.mediapart.fr/juliette-keating/blog/191118/une-bouffee-doxygene-en-ces-temps-moisis
An exhibition in Paris is devoted to the “internment” of Roma and travellers in France during the Vichy Régime.
– Die Internierung der „Nomaden“ – eine französische Geschichte. In: Deutschlandfunk. 17.11.2018. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/ausstellung-in-paris-die-internierung-der-nomaden-eine.691.de.html?dram:article_id=433352
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance launched a digital exhibition on the Roma and Sinti Holocaust. Worth checking.
– Digital Exhibition about Genocide of Sinti and the Roma accompanied by Stories about Hungary, Croatia and Romania. In: IHRA. https://holocaustremembrance.com/news-archive/digital-exhibition-about-genocide-sinti-and-roma-accompanied-stories-about-hungary?fbclid=IwAR0tbFEAPiNNdX1gx43vcmO2LnBU2RONW8CXkKNrc2bq3xP9dlsSkgu2GSY
Has something changed in Hungary, ten years after the killing of Roma?
Scary.
– TEN YEARS AFTER THE ROMA KILLINGS IN HUNGARY: THERE’S NOTHING ‘SO-CALLED’ ABOUT ANTIGYPSYISM. In: European Roma Right Centre. http://www.errc.org/news/ten-years-after-the-roma-killings-in-hungary-theres-nothing-so-called-about-antigypsyism?fbclid=IwAR10Cq-SIaRFffJ5k-VdW2qMHyjq44tuEiK1SFJoB6R4juANbTvXpshXR_c
The 5th Roma film Festival is taking place in Pristina.
– Rolling Film Festival brings Roma changemakers to center stage. In: Prishtina Insight. 14.11.2018. https://prishtinainsight.com/rolling-film-festival-brings-roma-changemakers-to-center-stage/?fbclid=IwAR3XdraMPJiW6h24R8a78SYsplYHMUx0gxec8_Y2nj8PQeAx0yyIL_gq4po
Meet two Romnja, Anina Ciuciu and Katalin Bárcony in Paris on November 22nd.
– Être femme et rom. In: Espace des Femmes. https://www.espace-des-femmes.fr/etre-femme-et-rom/?fbclid=IwAR0_nBdXDSfcPFfFBZTjZyrVTMRs_FfrNMy-5v5YKF4hxOoXXevTKaBGEI4
The state of Baden Württemberg has extended its contract with the Sinti and Roma association until 2033…
Good!
– Verband der Sinti und Roma und Land erneuern Zusammenarbeit. In: RTL. 14.11.2018. https://www.rtl.de/cms/verband-der-sinti-und-roma-und-land-erneuern-zusammenarbeit-4250830.html
– Land erneuert Staatsvertrag mit Sinti und Roma. In: Badische Zeitung. 14.11.2018. http://www.badische-zeitung.de/suedwest-1/land-erneuert-staatsvertrag-mit-sinti-und-roma–159715151.html
An article about Salvini’s expulsions. Migrants, Roma, etc… As if all Roma were migrants. One thing is good, the numbers of Roma cited (26’000) reflects the population of Roma living in camps, not the numbers of Roma in Italy…
– Hundreds of refugees and Roma homeless in Italian eviction drive. In: Reuters. 14.11.2018. http://news.trust.org//item/20181114195153-3aeui/
An article on whether integration of Rom in the Ukraine. Good, but … The “but” stems from the fact that the article does not differentiate and throws all Roma in a pot. And the situations are very different in the Ukraine depending on the Roma group and the regions.
Something to bear in mind.
– Could integration help Ukraine’s Roma? In: Open Democracy. 13.11.2018. https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/ganna-sokolova/can-integration-help-ukraines-roma
– Ganna Sokolova: Could integration help Ukraine’s Roma? In: Kyiv Post. 13.11.2018. https://www.kyivpost.com/article/opinion/op-ed/ganna-sokolova-could-integration-help-ukraines-roma.html
On a book by its author …
– The Trouble with Gypsies. In: History News Network. 11.11.2018. https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170268
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