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France And The Roma In The Past To The Present
Author : Himfr Oreitta
Submitted : 2011-11-20 18:24:33 Word Count : 784 Popularity: 5
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Many commentators and social activists are on the French Government to expel thousands of Roma (also known as Roma) expressed anger and confusion, many people will be the Vichy regime and the expulsion of the Jews during World War II, for comparison, but it is difficult identify what is more outrageous moves, is Sarkozy s anti Gypsy policy or criticism of the anti Semitic measures mentioned.
In the modern history of France, the wartime Vichy regime did not have a monopoly on the xenophobic policy type control. Throughout the century old history of the 20th century, the history of the French Republic has laid a government of discrimination against Roma administrative and legal basis.
In 1912, the Government of the Republic of France to the adoption of a law specifically for the homeless, the government also created a special identity card for Roma s system, the legal title in the Roma Pi nomads replaced.
Government identification card system to track in a battle of the whereabouts of the Roma in the country, they rarely stay in the government camps set up residence. This situation occurred in the 20th century, a change of 30 years, from the Eastern and Southern Europe with a large number of religious and political refugees into the French government established a new identity system, as the historian Pierre pointed out, However, this system is limited to the more stringent the composition of the French national profile, and better positioning those who do not belong to ethnic groups in France.
With the emerging role of this ruthless regime in France, formed a few special gathering center colony of these refugee camps like those just arrived in France to become local Roma stepping stones. At the same time, the French parliament adopted a law allowing officials the right to deprive those who recently obtained French nationality of natural citizenship. Then, before the German invasion of France, the French government ordered local officials to nomadic driven to the designated areas. In justify its actions, the French government said those who are not home, no land and the professional skills of the homeless have been on the French threat to national security, must be eradicated.
Republic will not be endless implementation of the Gypsies or Jews racist policies, not to mention the expulsion of these groups organized to death camps.
However, the history of French democracy coexist with authoritarian consecutive observation ignores the fact that democratic countries would like dictatorship, like the implementation of xenophobic and racist policies.
From Plato to Tocqueville had warned that the dangers of majority rule, especially in the majority language in minority under the spell of emotional excitement and action to become out of control.
Contemporary French and Romanian Roma is a good example, although the existing policy does not like the time when France and Ceausescu s Romania as harsh, but the Roma are still considered marginal groups.
In today s Romania, the Roma s poverty rate is the average of three times the low life expectancy, high illiteracy rates, in some areas, Roma unemployment rate even reached 100 . Romania joined the EU, the government had plans to develop better policies for Gypsies into mainstream society.
But the wave of anti Gypsy has forced the effectiveness of these initiatives have become very limited.
Romanians can now borrow the French expulsion of the Roma Gypsies initiatives that any expected move into the European community, but a utopian fantasy.
For France, the European Green Party leader Daniel Cohen Bennett said: Nicolas Sarkozy has taken French stupid anti Roma action. The latest polls show French society because of this initiative is the verge of splitting, Bennett s comments seemed to say that half of French people are stupid.
We have to look at 1912,1938 and 1940 by the three anti Roma law to see when the French faced a strong anti foreign sentiment and the threat of war, in addition, the declining birth rate in France for the Government in maintaining a France dominated by the economic, cultural and political power worried.
Although the French Republic and not facing the threat of war, economic stagnation, lower public expectations on the future, while the government also must deal with the promotion of national identity and the struggle between protecting national security.
This is a mockery of Sarkozy and Roma wish: a long time because of democratic deficit and criticized the European Union, may become stateless European continent last defenders of the homeless.
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