{"id":1153,"date":"2014-10-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/10-10-2014-rroma-role-models-and-education-in-greece\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:37:07","slug":"10-10-2014-rroma-role-models-and-education-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/10-10-2014-rroma-role-models-and-education-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"10.10.2014 Rroma, role models and education in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sutton (2014) reports on \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe Rroma community of a suburb of Thessaloniki. According to the author\u2019s opinion, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe access to education for the local Rroma is still very limited. Women and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgirls are particularly affected as they often get married early due to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttraditional role models, she states. Sutton tries to show the discrimination \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tagainst Rroma, but also reproduces one-sided stereotypes about the minority, especially \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tby focusing on marginalised Rroma that are, contrary to her assertion, not \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trepresentative of all Rroma, but rather a visible minority of the minority: \u201cStatistics on Roma women make for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdepressing reading. They have on average 10 years lower life expectancy than \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe rest of the EU\u2019s populations, higher infant mortality, less access to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thealthcare, limited access to information, extremely high levels of illiteracy, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfar higher rates of addiction, far, far lower rates of employment, voting and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teducation, poorer housing and sanitation. In addition, girls are married off at \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t13 and generally start having children immediately, most without any knowledge \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof material health, infant nutrition or how to read. Despite giving birth in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thospitals, the medical system doesn\u2019t work on their behalf. Greek doctors don’t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinform social services for a 13-year-old Roma girl in labour, even though this \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tis one place where the vicious cycles of bad health, poverty and disempowerment \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcould be broken.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

The continuing \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdiscrimination against Rroma as well as role models and traditions that impede \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tor prevent an individual conduct of life are massive problems, which must be decidedly \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfought. However, the image of Rroma that is conveyed here which portrays them as \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ta mass of uneducated and illiterate persons, who bear children while themselves \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin childhood, represents only a part of reality. They are visible Rroma, who \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlive mostly in segregated settlements and are therefore easy to reach for statistical \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsurveys or aid organisations. The integrated Rroma, who have good education, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbelong to all strata of society and also form part of the minority, are hidden by \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthis account. This is problematic, especially when starting from the liberal premise \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat the life situation of poor people results from a lack of individual initiative, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tor even connects the characteristics described here in a fallacy with the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tculture of the Rroma. Poverty and exclusion have nothing to do with the Rroma culture. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe general assertion that Rroma girls are married of at the age of 13, applies \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonly to traditional families and certain groups. Many Rroma want a good \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teducation for their children and question traditional role models and early \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmarriages. Sutton also implies this, when she asks the portrayed girls about \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttheir own wishes for the future. Nevertheless, a more critical and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdifferentiated presentation of the background and the heterogeneity of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tminority would have been very appropriate. <\/p>\n

Sutton, Ruth (2014) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe young Roma women who are changing their communities. In: Open Democracy online<\/em> vom 8.10.2014. https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/transformation\/ruth-sutton\/young-roma-women-who-are-changing-their-communities<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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