{"id":1529,"date":"2014-02-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/14-02-2014-an-unemotional-perspective-on-immigrants-from-southeast-europe\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:50:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:50:48","slug":"14-02-2014-an-unemotional-perspective-on-immigrants-from-southeast-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/14-02-2014-an-unemotional-perspective-on-immigrants-from-southeast-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"14.02.2014 An unemotional perspective on immigrants from Southeast Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Mappes-Niediek (2014) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttakes a dispassionate look at immigrants from South East Europe who are settling \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdown in Germany. He tries to draw a differentiated picture of the reasons for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttheir migration, which lies beyond simple generalizations. Poor Rroma from \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSoutheast Europe don\u2019t migrate to Western Europe or Germany with the aim to abuse \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe local social welfare system. They come with the aim to lead a life in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdignity. Their own family and close friends provide a social safety network, on \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhich one can rely on during hard times: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cThe \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpoverty immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria don\u2019t come here because of the social \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbenefits in Germany, but because you can live a better life here. They come with \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttheir families and with close friends. [ &#8230; ] The poorest of the poor who live \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin Romania, mainly in rural areas, mostly don\u2019t migrate at all.\u201d<\/em> Mappes-Niediek \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthen turns against the widely held view that education is the key to solving most \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tproblems. Education only brings something, the author states, if Rroma are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tallowed to integrate into the economy and the economy offers enough available jobs. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOtherwise, a university degree doesn\u2019t helps to improve one\u2019s situation: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">\u201cEducation is not the key, or at least not there \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhere the poverty immigrants come from. Everywhere in Eastern and South-Eastern \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEurope the relationship between education and a good life is broken, and indeed \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfor everyone, not only for the Roma. An entire generation has made the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texperience that education doesn\u2019t help in anything. They have seen it with \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttheir parents. The father was an engineer, his mother a Russian teacher. Today, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe mother goes to clean and the father is drinking [&#8230;].\u201d <\/em>With these \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstatements, Mappes-Niediek takes a pessimistic view at the stagnant economies \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof many countries of the former Eastern bloc. The denial of benefits and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpossibilities to integrate is said to create what many want to prevent: slums, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tproblems, crime. Mappes-Niediek takes a dispassionate look at the debate about \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpoverty immigrants from Eastern Europe. However, he also perpetuates ideas of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmainly impoverished, marginalized Rroma, as they are spread by the mass media \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand therefore established and culturalised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">This view contrasts with \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe short article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which focuses on the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twork of the social worker Lucia Bleibel with immigrant Rroma. Bleibel grew up \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin Slovakia and speaks Rromanes and Romanian. On behalf of the Internationale \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBund and the city of Hanau she takes care of the integration of marginalized \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma in the Hessen town. Bleibel\u2019s task is to remind the immigrants of the compulsory \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tschooling, the German health care system and the compliance with general rules. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe short text focuses entirely on the visible, impoverished Rroma and thereby \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tkeeps politicized notions of cultural alterity upright, despite or perhaps \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbecause of its emphatic perspective on the topic (Glaser-Lotz 2014).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Glaser-Lotz, Luise (2014) Einsatz f\u00fcr Roma-Kinder. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung online <\/em>vom 7.2.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/rhein-main\/streetworkerin-in-hanau-einsatz-fuer-roma-kinder-12791076.html\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.faz.net\/aktuell\/rhein-main\/streetworkerin-in-hanau-einsatz-fuer-roma-kinder-12791076.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mappes-Niediek, Nobert (2014) Warum wir die Roma nicht verstehen. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Frankfurter Rundschau online <\/em>vom 12.2.2014. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fr-online.de\/flucht-und-zuwanderung\/armutszuwanderung-warum-wir-die-roma-nicht-verstehen,24931854,26170222.html\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.fr-online.de\/flucht-und-zuwanderung\/armutszuwanderung-warum-wir-die-roma-nicht-verstehen,24931854,26170222.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mappes-Niediek (2014) takes a dispassionate look at immigrants from South East Europe who are settling down in Germany. 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