The insertion of higlhly vulnerable groups: Roma migrants in France (Urba-Rom)

[Roma Virtual Network]

Hello!

 

In recent years, official rhetoric in France and other European countries has often associated Roma migrants from Central Europe and the Balkans with delinquency and marginality. This attitude is what prompted researchers, social workers, associations and Romanian and Bulgarian Roma to come together in Paris, on 5^th of November 2011, to study the concrete inclusion actions engaged in by Roma migrants in France. The attached paper is a synthesis of these exchanges organised by Urba-Rom, the European Observatory of Policies towards groups referred to as Roma/Gypsies, with the support of the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, Romeurope and Médecins du Monde. Strictly speaking, this is not a scientific paper, but a series of reflections based on factual observations. It endeavors to deconstruct pre-conceived ideas and open the way for fresh thinking about the policies directed at vulnerable Roma and the fight against vulnerability and exclusion in European societies of the future.

 

If you are interested, it would be a pleasure to discuss this paper and possible ways forward with you. Of course, you can circulate it if you want.

 

Yours sincerely

Olivier Legros, for Urba-Rom.