La notizia l'ho appresa dagli schermi televisivi di una stazione della metropolitana: un consorzio di comuni del pisano ha deciso di dare un bonus in denaro ai Rom che scelgano di tornare in Romania. Che vita li attende a queste latitudini?
The common sentiment is that of a cohabitation malsopportata. Speaking of the problems of integration between Italian and Romanian, the answer that I'm usually give is "not our fault if we live in one state," referring of course to the Roma, which is downloaded on the responsibility of the sad episodes of the news. The same thing he told me even a public radio journalist Rom ania ActualitaĊ£i. Weak argument, and that hides tensions.
' Tigani' (a term commonly used for the Roma, and we should not have lived to Bucharest to see that it contains within itself a hint of contempt) and 'gagii' (for the Roma the white man, a brand name that a non-membership) are in Bucharest parallel universes that you touch and cross each day without ever melting.
What are the Roma, where they live and under what conditions?
live on the margins, in the gray area between legality and illegality. A couple of times, past the homes of Roma families, I felt something to ask, I probably have offered the services of a prostitute. A time for artisans, the advent of machines has ripped the ground from under their feet. Now are used in companies that deal with street cleaning, recycling metals are small traders. However, According to data from a few years ago, the majority live in poverty. It's impossible not to notice: the streets, little tradition and a lot of misery.
seems strange, but many Roma live in beautiful houses in the historic center of the capital buildings in the interwar period, when Bucharest was the 'Little Paris'. Often dilapidated houses for the same neglect of the owners. I saw one with no windows where - I have told social workers - a family that lives last winter had only enough clothes for one child, while others stayed at home waiting for their turn to come to school. One morning, some children with whom I work have asked me if I had a shower at home, including them, according to the custom living in tents, do not have. Children and adolescents aged 9 to 18 years in one class, to retrieve lost years of study in real life stories.
According to an article published last April 29 G Andulo the newspaper, which reported the results of a survey of the EU, 10% of the Romanian Roma are illiterate. Although, according to the survey, there are less discriminated against than in the other countries surveyed (all of the former Soviet bloc plus Greece).
Thanks also to pressure from Brussels, the Romanian Government, since 2001, has launched a series of anti-discrimination laws and is committed to implement 'affirmative action'. In education, for example, abolishing the separate classes and reserving a number of places in public universities.
The life of the Roma seems a vicious circle that runs fast forward a little, in a vortex in which it is difficult to distinguish the wrongs of the former and the arguments of others. Vista from Bucharest, the road to a more organic living is all uphill.
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