{"id":1081,"date":"2014-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/20-08-2014-rroma-willing-to-integrate-in-dortmund\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:42:09","slug":"20-08-2014-rroma-willing-to-integrate-in-dortmund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/20-08-2014-rroma-willing-to-integrate-in-dortmund\/","title":{"rendered":"20.08.2014 Rroma willing to integrate in Dortmund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bandermann (2014) reports \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton a Rroma family from Romania who is trying to integrate in Dortmund. The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tarticle attempts to show that the ideas of the anti-social Rroma, not willing \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto integrate, are actually loaded with prejudices. Anisoara and Fabian \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLazar-Ion, who worked eight years in Spain before the economic crisis, just \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twant to live a normal life and want to provide a good future for their \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tchildren. In Romania, they did not see any possibility to build an existence. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tToo strong was the discrimination, too weak the economy, too corrupt the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpoliticians: \u201cFabian and Anisoara Lazar-Ion \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdo not fit the image of Roma parents who send their children to steal. Because \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe couple has a plan. The two want to work honestly and get a fair wage. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSocial assistance? \u201cFor us, no perspective\u201d, they say briefly and succinctly. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBoth do not hang around on the street and take their fate into their own hands. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[…] Both have a heart\u2019s desire, in addition to a secure future. Fabian is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tproud to be a Roma. He calls himself Gypsy – and asks the Dortmund people: \u201cWe \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tare not all the same. There are parents who lack education. We do not agree \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith the fact that they send their children out, so that they commit crimes. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlso his wife sees their own countrymen critically: \u201cThey simply have no plan \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfor their lives. But it is a false impression that all gypsies are criminals.\u201d The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t39-year-old had to experience himself how it feels to be discriminated against: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin his former homeland Romania. \u201cI had several interviews. Once it was known \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat I\u2019m a gypsy, I had no chance.\u201d\u201d <\/em>\u00a0The fate of Fabian and Anisoara Lazar-Ion is a good example \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat willingness to integrate is not a question of ethnic origin. Already now, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t110,000 to 130,000 Rroma are living integrated in Germany, many of them for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgenerations. They are the proof that the inclusion of the Rroma is possible \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twithout problems if they are not restrained by marginalization and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdiscrimination.<\/p>\n