“Barvalo” : le renversement du miroir | Anna Mirga-Kruszelnicka
▻https://lmsi.net/Le-renversement-du-miroir
En langue romani, barvalo signifie « riche » et, par extension, « fier ». Ce mot polysémique sert de titre à une formidable exposition du Mucem, à Marseille, consacrée à l’histoire et à la diversité des populations romani d’Europe – une histoire indissociable de celle de l’antitsiganisme, contre lequel ceux que l’on continue parfois d’appeler « Tsiganes » luttent depuis un millénaire. Source : Les mots sont importants
]]>Are You Syrious (AYS)
AYS Daily Digest 07/04/20
▻https://medium.com/are-you-syrious/ays-daily-digest-07-04-20-luxembourg-and-germany-agree-to-take-in-small-numb
AYS Daily Digest 07/04/20
FEATURE Luxembourg and Germany are finally going to take in some children suffering in Greece’s island camps.
Germany is going to take in 50 and Luxembourg will take in…12. There are at least 5,500 unaccompanied minors currently in Greece. A group of countries decided last week to collectively bring in 1,600 of these unaccompanied children, but COVID-19 has slowed this process.
Luxembourg is the first country escort any these children; their 12 being on Lesvos and Chios currently. Their relocation will happen sometime next week. At least 5,488 unaccompanied children will remain living in horrid conditions afterwards.
#Covid-19 #Migration #Migrant #Balkans #Grèce #Camp #Luxembourg #Allemagne #Enfant #mineursnonaccompagnés #Lesbos #Chios #transfert
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3rd day of hunger strike in Moria Prison
On April 5th, the prisoners in Moria’s pre-removal detention centre went on strike for their immediate removal. No Border Kitchen Lesvos explains:
“These days governments across the world have been releasing people with short sentences from prison, while the Greek state continues to insist that no migrant detainees will be released. The men here in the prison are held in administrative detention and have committed no crime. They are detained only because of their status. Some because of their nationality, some because their asylum claim was rejected, some because they tried to leave the islands, some even because they signed up for supposed “voluntary return”. Many of those with rejected claims haven’t even had the opportunity to apply for asylum, because of recent legal changes discriminating against people who don’t speak the colonialist language of the country they fled from. They are awaiting deportation to Turkey, despite there being no deportations scheduled for the foreseeable future.”
#Moria #Camp #Expulsion #Turquie #Grèvedelafaim #Asile #Retourvolontaire
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Migration Minister’s page says medical staff is recruited for detention centres:
“today began(…) recruitment of emergency staff(…), lasting three (3) months to meet the extraordinary needs of the Reception and Identification Centers and Temporary Supply and Supply Structures for Hosting Services. A total of 150 people will be hired at the KYT of #Lesvos, #Chios, #Samos, #Leros and #Kos, as well as at the Structures of #Malakassa and #Sintiki” and #Evros #prison #outpost.”
“new arrivals from March 1 have not been taken to the Reception and Identification Centers of the Islands but in separate quarantine areas, however there are difficulties to do so(…). So far, the Ministry has not received a positive response from the municipalities for hotel rentals for the removal of vulnerable groups from the KYT to the islands. “The European Commission has offered to cover hotels for the most vulnerable for a short time now due to the crisis, we have a written response from the local municipality that it refuses to use hotels to get the most vulnerable out of #Moria. What some are calling for a mass decongestion of Moria, that is, for 15,000 people to come from Moria to mainland Greece amid the crisis of the corona (…).there are no 15,000 vacancies in the hinterland and if there were they would be in structures like Ritsona. And in the end, it is not a given which place is safer “, the Minister stressed.
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#Ritsona #camp has been in lock down for 5 days now
…no asylum seeker in or out since at least 23 out of 2,700 people living in the camp have tested positive for COVID-19.
The 23 people who tested positive for the virus continue to live with their families, who most likely will contact it soon, and none of them show any symptoms of the virus as of yet. Therefore, they are said to feel discriminated by the tests and are refusing to move to the camp’s designated quarantine areas.
All 23 persons are from African nations, which is unfortunately increasing acts of #racism in the camp. One of the residents said that the other refugees are avoiding African nationals.
Testing has stalled in the camp because the medical professionals can only go in to conduct the tests with police, but fewer police are willing to enter now.
Are You Syrious Daily Digest 6/4/20
▻https://medium.com/are-you-syrious/ays-daily-digest-6-4-20-riot-police-violently-raids-a-detention-centre-in-gr
70members of the riot police stormed a detention centre and were beating the confined people confined with batons. Reportedly, there are five people in a critical condition, many were injured and people had not been given food for a long time, according to the first reports that AYS and other groups received.
The most comprehensive report of the incident reads: The government and the Minister of Civil Protection are responsible for the barbaric crackdown on migrant protests over food in the midst of the corona pandemic. Not only are they cynically indifferent to the human lives of the 450 migrants held in the PRO.KE.K.A (Pre-removal Detention Centre), but they are endangering their health with bad food and that of poor nutrition quality.
On April 3, when the food arrived, they found that it was not eatable, and refused to eat it. This kind of food was simply “not for humans”.
Officials have promised that this will change, which did not happen, however.
Then, starting with a large group of Arab protesters came out of the cells, almost everybody went to the rooftop and started a hunger strike. This was followed by an attack of the police in full battle gear. The police took them out of the cells, hitting them with batons, while they also used electric tasers, as the people complained. Dozens of people were beaten for taking part while lying in the yard, it is reported.
They smashed the cameras on their phones so they can’t take pictures of the injuries. And they haven’t given them food since then. According to police sources, a man was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
Underlying racism in official reporting
There is underlying racism in the way Greece reports about COVID-19, separating the report on the general number of infected people and the number of infected people inside the camps. It is clear that if COVID-19 is present in the camps, it came from outside the camps. These types of reports leave room for interpretations, and all kinds of conclusions and conspiracy theories that connect people on the move currently trapped in the camps with COVID-19. In this way they spread a dehumanizing rhetoric very present in governmental reporting, but also within the bureaucratic reports of the big organisations following their lead.
Illegal Deportations and Pushbacks to Turkey, Ordered by the Greek Government, Executed by the Greek Coast Guard
Aegean Boat Report reports:
“While the eyes of the world are occupied with the COVID-19 pandemic, Greek government seems to be taking advantage of the situation, a new tactic to tackle flows towards the Greek Aegean islands has been implemented.
In the last weeks at least nine incidents of people being found drifting in the sea, in life rafts without propellant, has been reported by Turkish coast guard. This could easily have been disregarded as Turkish propaganda, if it hadn’t been for the evidence from Samos.
April 1th at 08.00 a boat landed on Mourtia Beach, Samos east, carrying approximately 25 people. There where several people on the beach this morning witnessing the landing, pictures, and videos was taken. Port police were called by a person on-site, later port police denied having received any information on such incident, and that no new arrivals had been reported on Samos.
Witnesses report that two boats from HCG arrived in Mourtia bay after the landing, the refugees were taken on one of the boats from port police, a boat took off heading southeast. A picture taken by a local journalist shows that two boats from HCG were in fact in Mourtia bay this morning, but port police deny that any of their vessels were in the area this morning.
The last boat that landed in Mourtia beach was February 19th, nevertheless, later this very day people who walk on this beach every day, found a rubber boat, engine, a fuel tank and clothes that weren’t there the day before. Port police told people who contacted them about this that there had been no arrivals, and that they should remember that it was April fools day.
Turkish Coast guard picked up 26 people 13.30 this same day, in a life raft that had drifted towards Aydin national park, 10 children, 6 women and 10 men. According to the statement from the passengers, obtained by TCG, they claimed that they had crossed to the island of Samos; were later rounded up by the Greek Coast guard, put on a life raft, and dragged to Turkish waters.
Pictures taken by locals from Mourtia Beach, compared to pictures taken by Turkish coast guard leaves no doubt, people photographed on Samos is the same that TCG found drifting in a raft outside Aydin national park. When we also take into account the statements from locals regarding this landing, the evidence is overwhelming.
If this had been an isolated incident, this could have been an HCG crew taking things in their own hands, but it’s not. Nine known cases in the last two weeks, from Simi in the south to Lesvos in the north, shows that this is not an isolated incident, this is boat crews acting on orders from the top.”
Due to a dispute between local government and the Greek Ministry of migration, 152 new arrivals on Lesvos are still stuck out in the open without any sufficient infrastructure which meets basic needs, such as electricity, toilets or other sanitary facilities, @f_grillmeier (Twitter) reported. 25 people of those 152 who also arrived after March 1 have been staying in a discarded bus at Mytilini Harbour close to an old swimming pool, but have now been tranferred to Kara Tepe.
56people are in tents and underneath broken boats close to Petra, 32 people are reportedly in staying tents at mountain-region of Agios Stefanos, 39 in a chapel close to Kliou, north. According to the media, the local government has not indicated a safe temporary place for those who have to quarantine for 14 days after arrival. The Ministry of Migration says that it is the responsibility of local authorities.
Anxiety and Despair Among People Confined in Camps Across the Country
As a consequence of the locked camps’ regime that seems to be unsustainable in the long run, as it is now, there is growing despair among the people held in the centres across Serbia, guarded by the army. The people staying in these camps are complaining that they are not allowed to provide their families and themselves with enough proper food for a healthier survival within the facilities in which they are held. They say that in the Krnjača camp there is a small shop with no clear pricing, and everything is much more expensive than in the other shops outside of the camp. They are forced to buy food in these shops which they claim are owned by some of the staff, and even there not everyone gets to have a chance to shop.
The SCRM introduced obligatory isolation for new arrivals sent to Preševo camp, which with a population of 1,501 making it the largest camp .
Growing mental health issues, gaps in service provision and supply, conflicts between different groups and the toxic influence of smugglers’ propaganda inspiring some to protest violently, these are some of the issues InfoPark documented from the testimonies of people held in these centres.
CROATIA
Pushbacks continue
Although the official sources claim the “pressure on the border” has reduced, and that there are not that many people trying to cross the green border into Croatia, the reports on pushbacks have not ceased. AYS has received information on several cases of pushbacks in the area close to Velika Kladuša in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Also, L’ ALTRA VOCE have recently shared an account of a pushback of a group of boys who tried to enter Croatia, but were beaten up and had their belongings taken away, they say. The images they sent them display heavily bruised arms and extremities on the boys’ bodies.
Sixteen cops beat them with great violence using steel bars. They insulted and beat them. Then they took everything away from him: cell phones, money, shoes, jackets. And they pushed them into the cold water of a river.
#Covid-19 #Migration #Migrant #Balkans #Grèce #Détention #Camp #Racisme #Refoulement #Merégée #Turquie #Samos #Mourtia #Mythilène #karatepe #Agiosstefanos #Petra #Kliou #Klidi #Sintiki #Privatisation #Serbie #Armée #Presevo #Krnjaca #Santémentale #Croatie #Refoulement #Velikakladusa #Bosnie-Herzégovine
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20 mars
Samedi dernier, 500 personnes qui sont arrivées après le 1 mars et ont été détenues sur Lesbos, refusé leur droit de demander asile, ont été transportées au centre de détention fermée à #Malakasa, en attente d’être déportés. Aujourd’hui, le #transfert des personnes restantes en détention des autres îles a commencé.
Les gens de #Samos et #Chios sont déjà sur le « #Aqua_Blue », direction #Lesbos, #SuperJet a déjà ramassé des gens sur #Kastelorizo et #Rhodes en direction #Symi. Combien de temps ils resteront dans ces centres fermés est inconnu.
Aujourd’hui et demain le transfert de 1513 personnes aura lieu, 794 personnes seront emmenées sur le site de #Klidi à #Sintiki_Sères, et 719 seront emmenées à Malakasa, au nord d’#Athènes. Au total, plus de 2000 personnes, beaucoup d’entre eux, seront enfermés derrière des fils barbelés jusqu’à ce qu’ils soient déportés, pour une durée indéterminée.
Les arrivées en détention de Lesbos (192 personnes), Chios (283 personnes), Samos (129 personnes) et Kea (190 personnes), seront emmenées au #centre_de_déportation de #Sères.
Arrivées en détention de #Leros (252 personnes), #Kos (237 personnes), #Kastelorizo (106 personnes), #Symi (21 personnes), #Kalymnos (60 personnes) et #Rhodes (43 personnes) , sera emmené au centre d’expulsion de Malakasa.
Aqua Blue et Superjet ont été chartés par le Ministère de l’Immigration et de l’asile pour transporter des réfugiés des îles de la mer Égée vers la Grèce continentale. Les 2 navires SEAJETS exploiteront 4 itinéraires, qui sont les suivants :
1. Samos - Chios - Lesbos - Kavala (Aqua Bleu)
2. Castelorizo - Rhodes - Symi - Kos - Rafina (SuperJet)
3. Leros - Kalymnos - Kos - Rafina (SuperJet)
4. Kea - Kavala.
–-> Pour plus de statistiques et d’informations détaillées, rendez-vous sur aegeanboatreport.com (▻https://aegeanboatreport.com) / Statistiques ABR.
Reçu via mail, le 21.03.2020 via la mailing-list Migreurop
#centres_fermées #détention #migrations #asile #réfugiés #statistiques #chiffres #Grèce_continentale #déplacements_de_masse
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Près de 3000 Yéniches et Sinti suisses mènent un mode de vie itinérant, auxquels s’ajoutent plusieurs milliers de Roms étrangers qui sillonnent également les routes de Suisse avec leurs #caravanes. Il manque toutefois aux #gens_du_voyage des aires d’accueil pour le stationnement de leur véhicule, que ce soit pour une halte spontanée ou pour un arrêt bref ou prolongé. Des aires de séjour pour leur permettre de vivre durablement ou pendant la saison d’hiver font aussi défaut. Certaines incertitudes juridiques et d’#aménagement_du_territoire subsistent concernant la halte sur un territoire communal.
Le présent Territoire & Environnement montre comment la Confédération, les cantons et les communes peuvent aborder la demande en aires d’accueil. Il explique quelles sont les conditions-cadres juridiques et d’aménagement du territoire pour la création celles-ci.
▻https://www.espacesuisse.ch/fr/publications/territoire-environnement#page/1
#Suisse #aire_d'accueil
signalé par @nepthys
La #langue des Gitans et le président Macron | Le Club de Mediapart
▻https://blogs.mediapart.fr/833068/blog/070219/la-langue-des-gitans-et-le-president-macron
Il faudrait de longues pages pour rappeler ici l’ancienneté #historique sur le sol français de ceux que l’on appelle les « #Gitans » et qui appartiennent à la sphère #linguistique du #romanès, la langue #romani : les capitaines égyptiens au service des seigneurs de l’Ancien Régime, les #Bohémiens et Bohémiennes qui peuplaient les villes et les campagnes et qui ont laissé tant de traces dans la topographie de la France et dans les archives, les #Calé appelés « Gitans », qui parlaient le #caló dans le sud de la France et dont certains aujourd’hui parlent une forme rare du #catalan, les #Manouches ou #Sinti de toutes les régions qui parlent encore la langue de leurs ancêtres, les Sinti #piémontais notamment qui formèrent les grandes compagnies de cirque du 20e siècle et parlaient un dialecte particulier, les Roms d’Europe centrale et orientale qui arrivèrent par vagues à partir du 19e siècle et qui parlent de multiples dialectes, notamment le #kaldérash, auxquels il faut ajouter tous les #Yénishes du Centre et de l’Est, qui ont absorbé, il y a longtemps, une partie du lexique romani, et aujourd’hui les centaines de milliers de Voyageurs, itinérants ou sédentaires, qui s’expriment dans les langues du Voyage dont les variantes sont aussi nombreuses que les régions françaises.
Alors, « comment les Gitans parlent-ils » ? Ils parlent d’abord le français, la langue de leur pays, ni plus ni moins que tout le reste de la population. Mais ils sont aussi les locuteurs d’une des langues de France, le romani, une langue de tous les jours, mais aussi une langue de l’écrit et de la poésie, la langue d’auteurs méconnus, une langue de la chanson, de la joie ou de la mélancolie, une langue à la fois politique et magnifique comme toutes les langues, une langue qui plonge dans l’histoire de l’Orient, de la Méditerranée et de l’Europe, une langue qui a laissé des traces dans le français et pas seulement dans l’#argot, une langue qui a raconté les souffrances de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et qui aujourd’hui parle de la vie quotidienne dans un pays qui n’a aboli qu’en 2017 la loi discriminatoire de 1969, héritière de l’autre loi de 1912, de sinistre mémoire, qui instaura le « #carnet_anthropométrique des #nomades ».
]]>Le génocide des Tziganes et la mémoire
▻https://blogterrain.hypotheses.org/11598
Aujourd’hui a lieu en République tchèque la Roma Pride, défilé annuel des #Roms et des #Sintis. Dans Le Monde du 3 octobre dernier, le journaliste Blaise Gauquelin évoquait l’une des revendications de ce défilé : la mise en place d’une fondation destinée à entretenir la mémoire du #génocide oublié des #Tziganes, victimes de #massacres_nazis dont l’ampleur est souvent sous-estimée. Une entreprise mémorielle d’autant plus importante que le défilé protestera aussi contre les propos tenus en juin par Matteo Salvini, le ministre de l’Intérieur italien et vice-président du Conseil. Après avoir exprimé sa volonté de recenser les Roms présents en Italie pour expulser ceux d’entre eux qui y résident illégalement, il avait ajouté : « Malheureusement nous allons devoir garder les Roms italiens parce que nous ne pouvons pas les expulser ».
Le génocide des Tziganes est longtemps resté « une catastrophe invisible », selon les termes de Michael Stewart, anthropologue à l’University College de Londres, dans le numéro 54 de Terrain. L’occasion de relire cet article qui analyse la persécution et le génocide particulièrement « désorganisés » et « désordonnés » des Tziganes durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, et rattache le caractère localisé de leur persécution à l’échec, après le conflit, de la reconnaissance de cette catastrophe. Il souligne ainsi le caractère problématique de la notion d’intention génocidaire : « Vus de l’extérieur au moment où ils ont lieu, tous les génocides semblent par nature ambigus et non plausibles. »
L’inventaire des crimes du XXe siècle – du massacre des Arméniens par les Turcs en 1915 à celui d’un million de personnes à Bali en 1965, en passant par la campagne menée contre les Mayas du Guatemala trente-six ans durant (de 1960 à 1996) sous couvert de guerre contre-insurrectionnelle, et jusqu’au Darfour d’aujourd’hui (où, encore une fois, une définition restrictive de la notion de génocide permet au gouvernement soudanais de se débarrasser à bon compte de minorités gênantes) – permet de discerner un schéma assez évident.
Vus de l’extérieur au moment où ils ont lieu, tous les génocides semblent par nature ambigus et non plausibles. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le monde regardait ailleurs, préférant ne pas savoir. En Bosnie, il se laissait représenter par un envoyé des Nations unies d’une incompétence criminelle, qui, à force d’atermoiements et de pleurnicheries, permit aux nettoyeurs ethniques de faire de sa présence l’une des armes les plus importantes de leur crime de masse. Au Rwanda, le monde fit mine de n’avoir pas le temps de remarquer ce qui se passait. À l’heure où j’écris, la communauté internationale rougit et regarde ses pieds, niant que la boucherie du Darfour constitue un génocide à proprement parler, et espérant que personne ne la forcera à agir contre le régime criminel de Khartoum. C’est toujours après coup qu’il est possible d’affirmer sans ambiguïté qu’un génocide a eu lieu. Ce n’est qu’alors que les leaders mondiaux, et derrière eux les peuples du monde, font le vœu de ne plus jamais voir cela se reproduire. Il serait absurde d’imaginer que les recherches qui sous-tendent une publication comme celle-ci changeront notre disposition, bien enracinée, à ne pas croire et à ne pas agir face à ces catastrophes créées par les hommes. Ces recherches peuvent toutefois remettre les pendules à l’heure pour un groupe de victimes, et changer notre façon de comprendre comment les meurtres de masse se produisent.
]]>#Albanien - Vom #Atheismus zum #Islamismus |dlf - Sabine Adler - 2018-09-01
▻http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/albanien-vom-atheismus-zum-islamismus.1773.de.html?dram:article_id=3
▻http://ondemand-mp3.dradio.de/file/dradio/2017/09/01/podium_vom_atheismus_zum_islamismus_albaniens_dlf_20170901_0749_
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Auch der Anti-Terror-Beauftragte des Premierministers, Agron Sojati, sieht hier Handlungsbedarf. Radikalisierung geschehe häufig als Versuch, der Armut und Chancenlosigkeit zu entfliehen. „Hauptsächlich sind es wirtschaftliche Gründe. 60 Kilometer von Tirana entfernt lebt in einem kleinen Ort eine Gemeinde von #Sinti und #Roma. Von dort sind allein fünf Personen nach #Syrien gegangen, weil man ihnen versprochen hat, dass jeder 1.500 Euro bekommt. Tatsächlich bekamen sie 150 Euro. Alle sind zurückgekehrt.“
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]]>Letter from the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, #Nils_Muižnieks, to Mr #Ignazio_Marino, Mayor of Rome, on the right to housing of Roma and Sinti and integration of beneficiaries of international protection
▻https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=2137201
#Rome #Roms #commission_européenne #droits_humains #Sinti #intégration
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