{"id":1264,"date":"2014-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/27-08-2014-integration-policy-towards-rroma-in-dortmund\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T13:57:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:57:23","slug":"27-08-2014-integration-policy-towards-rroma-in-dortmund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/27-08-2014-integration-policy-towards-rroma-in-dortmund\/","title":{"rendered":"27.08.2014 Integration policy towards Rroma in Dortmund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">V\u00f6lkel (2014) writes about the integration efforts of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWorkers\u2019 Welfare Association (AWO). The social workers of the AWO try to help immigrated \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma in their integration efforts by assisting them in their search for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thousing, jobs, as well as with German language courses. V\u00f6lkel states that since the AWO offers this support for free, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconflicts arise with people smugglers who help the newcomers with agency \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tappointments and different application procedures, in return for exorbitant \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprices. As a positive example, the journalist presents the family Ion-Lazar. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Rroma, originally from Romania, try to integrate successfully by all means: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cAs for instance Fabian Lazar-Ion (39) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand his wife Anisoara (31). The two Romanians from Galati in the Moldavian \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tregion have gone to Spain nine years ago to work there. They fled from the lack \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof prospects, the hatred against Sinti and Roma and the discrimination in their \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thomeland. In Spain, they were doing well. They learned Spanish and had both \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twork and earned a living. But then came the economic crisis. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t find \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twork anymore\u201d, states the father of two children. He heard from his sister Gabriela \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLihcah that there was work in Dortmund. [&#8230;] First, they searched \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tunsuccessfully for work, housing, and some perspectives. Their life changed \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhen they met Mirza. The street worker and the translator Tatiana-Iolanda \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChristea invited them for breakfast and showed them possibilities. [&#8230;] Both \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thave found mini-jobs or seasonal work. But it is financially not enough to move \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto another part of town, away from the drug trade and the so-called illicit \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tworker district.\u201d <\/em>The article demonstrates successfully that reductionist \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnotions of anti-social Rroma, not willing to integrate, are wrong. The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tportrayed Rroma, who fled from the economic crisis to Germany, just want to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlive a normal life and provide a good future for their children. Already now, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t110,000 to 130,000 \u201cinvisible Rroma\u201d are living integrated in Germany. Many of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthem have done so for several generations. They are the proof that an \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tintegration of the Rroma is possible without problems, if they are not actively \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprevented from it by marginalisation and discrimination.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>V\u00f6lkel, Alexander (2014) Das Wort &#8220;kostenlos&#8221; kennen viele Roma nicht. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Die Zeit online<\/em> vom 26.8.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/gesellschaft\/zeitgeschehen\/2014-08\/roma-zuwanderung-dortmund\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.zeit.de\/gesellschaft\/zeitgeschehen\/2014-08\/roma-zuwanderung-dortmund<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V\u00f6lkel (2014) writes about the integration efforts of the Workers\u2019 Welfare Association (AWO). 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