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File Name | S21-Policy-NCFCA-9-AFF-Roma.docx |
File Size | 1.55 MB |
Date added | September 25, 2020 |
Category | Archived |
Tags | Debate, NCFCA, Policy, Season 21 |
Case Summary: You may be familiar with a romantic image of the “Gypsy,” but the reality is far different. Gypsies, or “Roma,” as they are more properly called, are the descendants of a group that migrated from India many centuries ago and settled in Eastern Europe. They continue to migrate and maintain an ethnic identity separate from the mainstream cultures of modern Europe. Within the European Union, they are the largest “stateless” ethnic group: there are more Roma than there are Danish people, for example. Targeted along with Jews and other groups by the Nazis during the Holocaust, they are still today widely subjected to hatred and discrimination. They are ascribed with a reputation for begging, thievery, ignorance, dirtiness, criminality, and seeking to sponge off public welfare benefits without working. Nonetheless, Roma who are born in EU countries and are citizens of those countries are entitled to all the rights, including movement and migration, to which any other EU citizen is entitled. EU countries have a habit of ignoring these rights and conducting mass deportations of Roma in violation of EU law and human rights obligations, and this plan sets mandatory standards EU nations must follow and sanctions if they don’t.