{"id":1400,"date":"2014-02-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/07-02-2014-the-integration-of-the-rroma-as-a-pan-european-task\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T07:33:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T06:33:30","slug":"07-02-2014-the-integration-of-the-rroma-as-a-pan-european-task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/07-02-2014-the-integration-of-the-rroma-as-a-pan-european-task\/","title":{"rendered":"07.02.2014 The integration of the Rroma as a pan-European task"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On the occasion of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvisit of the Romanian President in Berlin, Von Borstel and Lachmann address the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\troles of the individual EU countries in the integration of Rroma. Von Borstel\/Lachmann \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tquote the federal office of labour which estimates that about 180,000 Rumanians \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand Bulgarians will migrate to Germany, from which a quarter is reported to have \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUniversity degrees. For what period of time this forecast is done is not stated. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter this relatively differentiated preface, the article quickly becomes very \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tone-sided. The authors only speak of the salient, visible Rroma and extrapolate \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthem to the norm: \u201cEven at that time \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[2013] they were drawn to the district of Neuk\u00f6lln, the melting pot of Berlin \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith residents from 160 countries. And quickly through organised begging some \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRoma became an integral part of the cityscape: Women with small children \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbegging in front of churches, larger children harassing tourists, young people \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmaking noise on old instruments in the subway, or annoying drivers as \u201cwindow \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcleaners\u201d at major intersections. Every now and then a man from the clan comes \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand collects the begged money.\u201d<\/em> Some time later, the Romanian president B\u0103sescu is quoted indicating that these very visible Rroma are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ta minority of the minority. But the statement is immediately followed by the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnext stereotype: the migrating Rroma are said to be the ones that Romania failed \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto integrate. Immigrants are sweepingly made into problem cases. Rroma willing to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tintegrate do not exist, the article suggests. The European Union social affairs \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tminister L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Andor is quoted saying that the debate about immigration must \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbe more rational and less emotional. The Rroma Contact Point strongly agrees \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith that.<\/p>\n

The right-wing populist \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tplatform unzensuriert.at (2014) presents the visit of president Traian B\u0103sescu in Berlin in an extremely biased \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfashion: it only emphasizes the negative aspects and is openly racist towards \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma: \u201cMore and more Roma migrate from \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe two South-Eastern European countries to Austria, Germany or France and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthereby cause a whole series of problems; from social welfare to crime. Cities \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tlike Dortmund or Duisburg and the district of Neuk\u00f6lln have seen thousands of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRoma arrive. Side effects such as begging, crime and the neglect of entire \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdistricts are the consequence.\u201d<\/em> Such generalising, unreflecting, and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\txenophobic reporting can only be described as stupid. The comment column of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tarticle is also permeated by racist arguments.<\/p>\n