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This article is not specifically about Roma migrants, but does address the general problem of state neglect of immigrant detainees. “As a GP who worked on Nauru and Christmas Island, I’ve seen men with their lips sewn closed, women drinking from bottles of shampoo and children with weeping sores.” via What is it like to … Continue reading
Summer roundup Discrimination never goes on vacation… Here’s a roundup of some big (and/or interesting) stories over these past three summer months about Roma in Canada and Europe. But what did we miss? Post your links and thoughts in the comments section. News from Canada: Supreme Court rules that cuts to refugee health care are … Continue reading
“On August 2, 1944, 2,897 Roma and Sinti, men, women, and children incarcerated in Auschwitz-Birkenau were loaded onto trucks, transported to gas chamber V, and liquidated as part of Hitlers genocide. All of them were killed in a matter of hours, their bodies then disposed of in the crematorium. Upon the liberation of Auschwitz by … Continue reading
An interactive tool for building understanding about the challenges refugees face in claiming asylum in Europe. “The refugee challenge: can you break into Fortress Europe? As EU governments have made it harder to seek refuge in Europe, the flow of refugees fleeing the worlds most desperate conflicts is increasing. We invite you to make the … Continue reading
Amazing interactive resource and teaching tool: “The Refugee Project is an interactive maps of refugee migrations around the world in each year since 1975. UN data is complemented by original histories of the major refugee crises of the last four decades, situated in their individual contexts.” Check it out here: The Refugee Project.
Timely resource includes twelve articles assessing major events and changes in 2013. “This issue of Roma Rights focuses on National Roma Integration Strategies and the objectives, challenges and shortcomings of the EC Framework which aim to improve the situation and status of Roma across Europe. The articles assess the existing national strategies and also look … Continue reading
Excellent teaching resource that animates a brief account of Roma history. Gypsies, Roma, Travellers: An Animated History | Open Society Foundations (OSF).
Human rights abuses rampant across Europe, not just in newly acceded central European countries. http:// http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/131218/eu-human-rights-failing-mission
“Looking back on Canada’s last decade of immigration, two trends are obvious: One is the exponential growth of temporary foreign workers. Tens of thousands of migrant workers fill the endless labour shortage in jobs and places of which Canadians typically have no interest. Second is the federal government’s stepped-up effort on border control, from a … Continue reading
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