{"id":1846,"date":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/31-05-2013-prejudice-and-social-realities-rroma-in-france\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T07:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T06:33:42","slug":"31-05-2013-prejudice-and-social-realities-rroma-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/31-05-2013-prejudice-and-social-realities-rroma-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"31.05.2013 Prejudice and Social Realities: Rroma in France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vincent (2013) speaks \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tabout the prejudices against Rroma found in France. The recurrent protests by \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tresidents against members of this minority give him the opportunity to do so. Recently, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthere was a demonstration against Rroma settling in a country house in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFontainieu. Vincent goes after some stubborn stereotypes that the opponents of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma refer to again and again: Aggressive begging, theft, poor hygiene and excessive \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnoise. Regarding aggressive begging, he notes that the opinions of the answers \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof people cover a broad spectrum. Some massively irritated by the begging of Rroma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand describe them as intrusive; others think it is restrained and not \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconspicuous. Conflicts are the exception. As for children begging, about which \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsome residents complained, none was to be seen, simply because they were in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tschool. Vincent sees the attribution of thefts to Rroma as undifferentiated. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe surveys of local residents are often hastily written, and associate Rroma to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpoverty motivated crime. A resident in an interview stated that: \u201c<em style=\"font-family: Arial; \">Je n&#8217;en ai jamais pris, mais on les soup\u00e7onne. Quand \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttu as 50 centimes en poche, tu ne fais pas le tour du magasin.\u201c [I never caught any, but one suspects them. When you \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thave 50 cents in the pocket, you don\u2019t go around the shops] <\/em>The<em style=\"font-family: Arial; \"> <\/em>Police in turn denies that in the case of the crimes in Fontainieu \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tone is dealing exclusively with the acts of Rroma. To note that these houses \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thad been marked with a cross is implausible, because thieve gangs who did this \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tyears ago would incriminate themselves. Critics accuse Rroma to be responsible \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfor a marked increase of disease cases, especially tuberculosis. With \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcounter-studies, Vincent dispels this accusation: A local doctor finds no \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tincrease in cases of disease. In the centre and north of Marseilles, there will \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinevitably be more health problems than elsewhere, but this is due to difficult \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\taccess to health-care and not to ethnic factors. The noise is also clearly more \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ta product of structural conditions in the settlements than a result of cultural \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfactors. Nevertheless prejudices and resentment persist among many residents. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOne wishes less benevolent policies towards countries of origin, such as \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRomania, because of the fear of a mass migration, as in other European \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcountries or Western Europe or because one is convinced of the incompatibility \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof the Rroma culture with the French one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Metro News (2013) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprovides information on the whereabouts of some 170 Rroma in Lyon, who, after a \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfire in a house they occupied, have been accommodated temporarily occupy in the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgymnasium of a school. For unexplained reasons, the gym can no longer use as a. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSixty of those affected are being helped by a local program, the rest are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tliterally thrown on the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lib\u00e9ration (2013) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treports a demonstration of Rroma and people sympathetic to their cause in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tParis. The protesters, including many children, have criticised the current \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpractices of the French government who put Rroma on the street without \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talternative accommodation, who deprives them of the status as an EU citizen or forcefully \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdeports them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lib\u00e9ration (2013) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tManifestation parisienne contre les expulsions de Roms. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial; \">Lib\u00e9ration<\/em> vom 25.5.2013.<\/li>\n<li>Metro News (2013) Lyon : \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tque vont devenir les Roms apr\u00e8s l\u2019incendie mortel? In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial; \">Metro News France<\/em> vom 30.5.2013.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Vincent, Julien (2013) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur les Roms&#8230; In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial; \">Marsactu<\/em> vom 30.5.2013.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vincent (2013) speaks about the prejudices against Rroma found in France. 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