{"id":1544,"date":"2014-03-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ rroma.org\/14-03-2014-the-integration-of-the-rroma-and-the-french-mayoral-elections\/"},"modified":"2014-03-14T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:00:00","slug":"14-03-2014-the-integration-of-the-rroma-and-the-french-mayoral-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/14-03-2014-the-integration-of-the-rroma-and-the-french-mayoral-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"14.03.2014 The integration of the Rroma and the French mayoral elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bourgeot (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 plans of the socialist mayor of Roubaix, Pierre Duboix, to build a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsecond \u201cintegration village\u201d for immigrant Rroma. Duboix pointed to his plans \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tduring a discussion about the communal life. The location of the village is not \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tset yet. With these plans, the socialist mayor offers a target for his \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconservative rival, UMP politician Guillaume Delbar, who argues against Duboixs \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tplans : \u201cI want to remind you that the creation \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof ghettos assembles an extremely precarious and dangerous population. [ … ] \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe solution of the Rroma problem is the integration of those who really want \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto integrate themselves, not the creation of ghettos.\u201d <\/em>The debate on the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twillingness of Rroma to integrate is conducted extremely one-sided in French \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpolitics, in particular during upcoming elections. Many politicians, from the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsocialist as wells as from the conservative camp, allege the Rroma lacking will \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto integrate. With these assumptions they complicate a successful integration \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof the Rroma. That most Rroma want to integrate and lead a normal life, is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbeyond question.<\/p>\n

In Saint-Denis, a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdispute has evolved over the voting rights of a local Rroma group of 80 people. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe socialist candidate Mathieu Hanotin has filed a complaint at the local \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdistrict court questioning the legitimacy of the voting rights of the immigrant \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma, who are accused of not having a proof of residency. The current \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcommunist mayor of Saint-Denis, Didier Paillard, meanwhile rejects Hanotin\u2019s \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\taccusations that registering these Rroma is electoral fraud: \u201cBut Hanotin pushes his accusations further. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHe suspects that the Rroma application was coordinated by confidants of the mayor, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto rebut the suspicion of \u201ckick back\u201d in exchange for their votes\u201d<\/em> (Equy \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2014).<\/p>\n