{"id":1535,"date":"2014-02-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/14-02-2014-frances-unwanted-roma\/"},"modified":"2022-07-24T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T14:06:55","slug":"14-02-2014-frances-unwanted-roma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/14-02-2014-frances-unwanted-roma\/","title":{"rendered":"14.02.2014 \u00abFrance\u2019s unwanted Roma\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">As many before him, Astier \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(2014) reports about the forced evictions of illegal Rroma settlements in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrance. At first, he stresses that France has one of the harshest policies \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttowards this minority. Every year, thousands of Rroma are deported and illegal \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsettlements evicted. However, Astier wrongly assumes that all Rroma in France are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\timmigrants from Southeast Europe, mainly from Romania. The integrated, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinvisible Rroma representing the actual majority, he considers as being non-existent: \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201c<em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Like most of the estimated 20,000 ethnic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRoma living in France, Alex comes from Romania. And like most, he has been \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texpelled from one squalid camp to the next for years.\u201c <\/em>Regarding the forced \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tevictions, Astier emphasizes that the expulsions don\u2019t change much of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teffective situation, since constantly new illegal settlements are built. The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treference to precarious security situations is often just an excuse for \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tevictions:<em style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> \u201eOne aim of such \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\toperations is to remove unsightly, unsafe, and unsanitary sites that have no \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twater or electricity. However, Loret and others point out that the exercise is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tself-defeating. As soon as police tear down one camp, another is built nearby. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[&#8230;] \u201eThey live in increasingly precarious living conditions that prevent them \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfor integrating locally,&#8221; says ethnologist Martin Olivera. \u201eThey are being \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmaintained in a nomadic way of life they have not chosen.\u201c\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Astier, Henri (2014) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrance\u2019s unwanted Roma. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">BBC News \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonline<\/em> vom 13.2.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-25419423\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-25419423<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many before him, Astier (2014) reports about the forced evictions of illegal Rroma settlements in France. 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