(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #228 - Roma: The machine to dismantle (fr)

At the initiative of several support groups in the Essonne, held a conference on the 
recent policy of mass expulsions of Roma camps. Among the speakers, sociologists Eric 
Fassin and Said Bouamama. Analysis of one of the most heinous slopes of the migration 
policy of the Socialist Party. ---- The figure fell: in the first quarter of 2013, more
than 4,000 Roma have been expelled es of their living throughout France. This represents 
approximately 20% of the total population present in France. Justified by Manuel Valls,
who breaks records by " refusal to integrate "in this population, evictions are 
particularly rife in Ile-de-France, mainly in Essonne and Seine-Saint-Denis. Taking 
advantage of the dispersion of land across all departments, and the breakdown of groups
because of evictions, the government sought to divide support and anticipate any 
mobilization by giving the illusion of a complete social policy.

Thus, Ris, a dozen families have been proposed by the mayor a "program integration" 
condition of their housing. The mayor made ??a favor and go for what it is in principle a 
legal requirement relocate entire family deported. Above all, it contributes to the 
dissemination of an insidious idea: that of distinguishing "good" Roma, integrated, ill. 
We have already seen that for other people ....

Why so much hate?

Why the rush to expel the Roma? First, because the Roma, most European nationals or in the 
process of becoming permanently, are increasingly difficult deportable. Harassment of 
which they are the object has a deterrent purpose: it is the disgust of the exhaust and
dismember their families to renounce come to France.

Then, by populist demagogy to approach the great electoral circus in 2014. It is for local 
officials to assert itself as spokesman for their constituents. Eric Fassin and notes the 
new political use of the term " riparian "supposed to legitimize their action. The " 
Rroma problem "created from scratch, used to justify an application and claim to be 
involved in the lives of people. The Roma in the diversity of their backgrounds and 
situations, and are uniformly designated as a new threat to public order, like many other 
people who usually do not ask. And in fact, in several cities, one sees xenophobic 
movements was the case in Marseille, it is now in Montreuil, where capita es have rioted 
their hostility to ambiguous programs relocations of expelled es, with the support of 
Jean-Pierre Brard related former communist mayor of the town.

Anti-Roma xenophobia ya basta!

Faced with this politics of division that spans the municipalities to the Ministry of 
Interior, the need to mend the social bond between people and inhabitants of areas is 
needed more than ever. It is important, above all, take a firm stand against relocations 
in each case and to demand the arrest and harassment of all physical and moral violence
carried out against the living areas.

Clem (commission racist)