The Title says it all: “They live on garbage in the largest ghetto in Europe. “A school bag and money for school were impossible wishes’” It is an article on Pata Rat, a garbage dump on the outskirts of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, which has become a home for the excluded. The country’s fifth largest city, wealthy and with numerous cultural centres, hides people who are not treated as citizens.
Good to say, but also presents Roma as exactly that: The ones who are excluded. It also furthers stereotypes.
- Żyją na śmieciach w największym getcie Europy. “Tornister i pieniądze na szkołę były życzeniami niemożliwymi do spełnienia”. In: Wia domosci. 04.10.2023. https://wiadomosci.onet.pl/swiat/najwieksze-w-europie-getto-na-wysypisku-smieci-sa-kierowcami-smieciarek/5e5szgf