{"id":1222,"date":"2014-08-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/22-08-2014-the-ambivalent-concept-of-poverty-immigration\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:48:11","slug":"22-08-2014-the-ambivalent-concept-of-poverty-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/22-08-2014-the-ambivalent-concept-of-poverty-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"22.08.2014 The ambivalent concept of \u201cpoverty immigration\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Eisenring (2014) reports \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton the debate about the so-called \u201cpoverty immigration\u201d, that has now lasted \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfor several years. This, he states, is now increasingly felt in Germany, whereby \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe immigrant Rroma receive particular attention. Of the unemployed Romanians \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand Bulgarians in Germany, many are Rroma, the journalist claims. In his ethnisising \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstatement he forgets that ethnicity is precisely not recorded in the statistics \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand that the assessment is therefore a conjecture: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cHowever, such average numbers conceal that in cities like Berlin, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDortmund, Duisburg, or Offenbach there have been deprived areas for a long time. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tConsequently, the unemployment rate among Bulgarians and Romanians in May was at \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t34% in Duisburg, at 27% \u200b\u200bin Dortmund, and at 23% in Berlin. The cost of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thousing, health services and schools are transferred to the cities. However, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthis has not so much to do with the full freedom of movement, but with the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgenerally difficult integration of Roma and Sinti, who often come from the two \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcountries \u2013 a problem that also concerns other European countries.\u201d <\/em>The controversial \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthing about this assessment is that statistics on unemployment convey that \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthere is indeed a poverty immigration. However, the number of Romanians and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBulgarians claiming welfare \u2013 13% \u2013 is below the average number of foreigners \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith 16%, as Eisenring himself shows. Unfortunately, in terms of the Rroma, he argues \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tuncritically and culturalising by ascribing them a generally difficult \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tintegrability. That there are well-educated Rroma and many who are very willing \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto integrate, he implicitly denies. Similarly, he denies that there are already \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnow 110,000 to 130,000 Rroma living integrated in Germany, but are not perceived \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tas Rroma. Moreover, the term \u201cpoverty immigration\u201d is a highly politicised, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprejudiced terminology, as it is often used synonymously with the immigration \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof Rroma and is based on political views, that there indeed is a mass \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\timmigration of poor, uneducated Rroma into the German welfare system. It is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\timportant to identify and critically question this indiscriminate equation of real \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfacts and political views and opinions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eisenring, Christoph (2014) Deutsche Angst vor \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSozialtouristen. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Neue Z\u00fcrcher Zeitung \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonline<\/em> vom 21.8.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/wirtschaft\/deutsche-angst-vor-sozialtouristen-1.18367755\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.nzz.ch\/wirtschaft\/deutsche-angst-vor-sozialtouristen-1.18367755<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eisenring (2014) reports on the debate about the so-called \u201cpoverty immigration\u201d, that has now lasted for several years. 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