The usual story. No space for travellers, hence illegal camping, hence complaints.
An article about the largest horse drive in the UK.
Another conflict between Swiss towns and Roma travellers. This time in Yverdon. The town has blocked access to a camping site with concrete blocks, preventing the Roma who are there from leaving with their caravans.
There are not enough sites in Switzerland, and the highest court in the land is prompting the cantons to remedy this issue. Nothing is of course done.
Yeniche, Sinti and Roma are entitled to camping sites, which are rare in the Lake Zurich region. The site in Meilen is now to be renovated and expanded. Specifically, ten parking spaces are to be created. Ten is not much when one knows that there are often up to 50 caravans underway.
The Swiss government decided to cut the subsidies for Jenische and Sinti in Switzerland. They were already not generous.
The Swiss are not exactly generous to Travellers. And they do not even recognise Roma (but they do recognise Sinti and manouches) besides the Jenishe as a national minority. Now they are cutting the meagre amount they spend.
Bad.
There are not enough camping sites for travellers in Switzerland. This is definitively not new. The Council of Europe is now telling Switzerland it must act.
Let’s see, as the country is very good at doing nothing on this topic.
Roma and Travellers drove through London as part of a charity event.
The rightist party FPÖ in Linz is proposing a camping interdiction for Sinti and Roma in a site ner Linz and asking for a caution.
Reason behind this was the damages sustained recently that were the subject of several articles in the local press.
The District Museum in Nowy Sącz, Poland, is presenting an exhibition consisting of exhibits collected by Paweł Lechowski, an ethnographer who has been continuously interested in Roma culture since the 1960s. Thanks to his collection showcases the life of travelling Roma for those who know travels only from the stories of the older generation.
The country does not have enough camping sites for travellers. So what do they do, instead of building more, they produce a manual on how to deal with them…
Nothing new here: There are not enough camping sites for Travellers in Switzerland. They talk about it but do nothing. Apparently, the state is now wanting to put some money aside for this purpose. This will take another 20 years, as usual in Switzerland.
A book about the interdiction of travels for Roma in Poland. On May 24, 1952, the Polish government’s presidium adopted a resolution “On assistance for the Gypsy population in transitioning to a settled lifestyle”. This had more to do with the fact that Roma were not conforming to the socialist norm rather than anything else.
The book and article are wrong in that they say that “Most of the Gypsy tribes living in Poland had wandering in their tradition and eternal way of life”. First, these are not tribes, and second, most of these Roma had houses, especially among Xaladytka Roma, and were travelling during the summer to sell horses.
There are still too few camping sites for travellers in the canton of Zurich. This as been the case for ever, and I seems that now, the government plans to find two new sites. One of them should come to the Limmattal, the second in the Zurich Oberland.
Come back in 10 years – chances are, they won’t be there.
Another article on the fight of travellers in Switzerland to get camping sites, this time in Thal, Canton St. Gallen. The commune voted against the required zoning changes to allow for sur a site to be constructed.
One needs to say also that there are camping sites and that by and large, foreign Roma are parked in so-called “transit sites”.
The description of funeral among UK Travellers and Roma.
The canton of Bern is giving itself three years to better regulate the movement of travellers. It wants to avoid tensions arising with the authorities of the municipalities as soon as caravans of Roma, Sinti (Manouches) or Yéniches arrive in places a priori not intended to accommodate them or when these places have not been cleaned in time afterwards. the departure of the caravans. Experiences and reactions may vary from one municipality to another, from one procession to the next.
Well, this situation has been lasting for many years, and so far, nothing has been done at all.
Activists in Cambridge are asking for a stop of eviction of Travellers and for more sites.
Discrimination against Roma and Travellers also involves issues with banking.
Bad.
Two camping sites for travellers are planned on the left bank of the lake of Zurich. Needless to say, the communes are against it.
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