JOY FROM JOURNAL - 2010 - p. 80-84
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We no longer
in Petre Roma come from Romania, but the life of the nomads
have known here, together with evictions .
have now returned to live in a real house.
hoping that their future at all like this
Ilaria Solari - photo Alberto Dede
It's called "accompanying program autonomy" is the path taken by some Roma families from Milan, as Petre (here at various times of the day) after the removal last November of the squatter camp of Rubattino. It is supported by scholarships for children and adults for employment grants financed by funds raised by the Community of Sant'Egidio and citizens of the district.
few hundred people, parents, schools, ¬ many inhabitants of the district in need have no ¬ hosting displaced people, extraordinary teachers, voluntary re ¬ tireless, who inspired fundraisers and funding initiatives such as the sale of a wine set "Red migrant origin" (¬ vino.rom.rubatti no@gmail.com). And Italian language courses for adults, nurseries and play areas for children. A miracle
perhaps still too small to be worth to mention it next to the news, the forced exodus from France, at the top on emergency nomads. "Of the three-centoche were here last year," says ElisaGiunipero, volontariadiSant'Egidio "nelnuovocampoabusivodelRubattino, under the disused warehouses, remained in two hundred. Of the hundred that al-l'appello missing, however, are those that we drove eighty solutions to re-sidenzialieimpieghi, siapureprecari (pro ¬ priority as we write is being yet another eviction, which will jeopardize the implementation of these projects and the school attendance of children, ed.)
But the Italian adventure Mirela Constantine and Con-begin well before Rubat-vat, in another house. What you see on the intravascular background of the photo consumed: the home of the father of Constantin, the pro-vince and depressed rural Oltenia, in all three rooms in which they lived in eight. How many Roma settled down under the Ceausescu regime, the farmers were Petre: "Lives and maize," Constantin specific "is not a hard life, perhaps one of the city. But no money, no nothing. " Constantin was also re ¬ walled, "I built all the houses there. Once I went to work at home ", the look is a dark gap that caresses his wife. "-Continues to heal me. I made sure to visit her often. " In the eyes of Mirela finally grows a yellow light. And the first smile, "It was you who looked at me." A marriage not true cel'hanno AVU ¬ to. "No white dress, parties or dances. We were married civilly. " In Milan he got there first for ¬ Constan tin, following in-law, who is Pentecostal pastor, but is also a bricklayer. No caravans and wandering life: as many Roma Romanians, the first experience with the camps was in Italy. ¬ In addition, a story of ordinary immigration ¬ tion: at a parish in the hospitality ¬ chia, in exchange for work and repairs. Then it was the turn of an Egyptian who, for a bed in an apartment crowded with Constantine-paid 200 € per month. But I ¬ report suffering from melancholy and decided to reaches with Lori, the youngest. "The great has suffered so much loneliness in Romania that has remained little" re ¬ cord rubbing his cropped hair of Elvis.Proprio then had to Constantin-vised housing and jobs. They took refuge in the field via Bacula, which was already ¬ no friends and relatives. "When I came it was spring ¬ t, ¬
lano I was beautiful,"
. Mirela
remembers "all
¬
seemed warm and clean, also the cam-
bit." Hunting ¬ made no hired by the city has pushed them from one field to another settlement
. Until Rubattino: field pious ¬ no plan has blown up, cut the ac ¬ here and it was hell. "What could we do?" Constantin murmurs pointing to the TV tuned to a channel Romania 'I ¬ thousands of doctors leaving the country, with the state salary not Campania. For us it was worse. "
There are two televisions in the house Petre, one per room, both on. The flats ¬ ment is similar to many others. Clean, or ¬ ordinated. With a difference that leaps out after a while ': missing around the pinned-nebulosadioggettiprovvisoriamentefuo: keys, newspapers, junk. On the round table there are only a melon slices and cakes, as a sign of welcome. The rest is stowed with the meticulousness of whom you have from a time at Al ¬ against. Elvis Roma listen to songs downloaded from your computer plugs into a slot and a DVD with photos of class: "Look, here was the land mo ¬ moved by the wind," says the earnest little face, indicating that many children waving their arms. And what do you do? "Do not you see? We sing in English. " Show pride with a bit of the amazing report card. They are good guys, doing homework spontaneously and did not lose even a single day of school last sgom
shaft, where they slept two nights in a garden in the mist of November and then with his mother in a public dormitory, while dad took refuge where he could. "Compulsory vaccination and office-tions are the only institutions that recognized scone these people," says Stefano Pasta of Sant'Egidio, "which are still citizens. Yet, without residence, all other rights denied to them. " Maybe that's why, even now that live far away, wear shoes to school reaches the point of Rubattino. "When Constantin does not work, we go together," raccontaMirela . Al-trimenti leave at six in the morning. "Dad stains the walls, build houses Mila-no," said Loris. Mirela is also capable of a work-sa. Meanwhile, confesses that she feels alone. The best moment of the day ¬ is born in the afternoon, when reviewing her children. In the rest of the time? Lowers her eyes, "if we are in trouble ask an alms ¬ cora, but only to those who know." In what he calls the "good Italian". "Comelato lady dressed diblu cipor ¬ tion that the money to the gardens," echoed Elvis. ¬ I report recalls the shame of pri ¬ me sometimes, "never goes out, but then you learn to not think about anything." All the rest just a little gloomier, ' acids such as comments from the pharmacist when purchasing a bottle of aspirin because it is cool ¬ ta. Or the constant gaze of suspicion com ¬ placed when you shop at the supermarket.
The afternoon children fall from them to know ¬ backyard. Mirela does not trust to send them around by themselves, but the gardens yes, "there are all friends," said Constantin. The kids around here are from all over the world, and that you are the Roma is an immaterial detail. "You're from London?" Calls on all Elvis. What Cuno ¬ replied that he is now "from Milan." "Not yet won ¬ responds, shaking her head" only when I have the wallet for Milan. " "You mean the pas ¬ passport, Elvis?". "Yes, that too."
Even Elvis and Lori, the two Roma children enrolled in an elementary school Rubattino: busy with holiday homework (top left); around with dad (above) and with his mother Mirela (next) outside super where they spending. For
caution to Petre was not recommended ¬ mended to invite too many people at home. moments of sociality have so far consumed the field of Rubattino. Will no longer be so after this new clearing, the number 125 since the beginning of the year, according to the report of the Co-mune. "We gather every Sunday to cook on the grill ac ¬ 'eyes become Mirela transparencies. "Every time I see them, I wonder how it is possible to live like that ¬. It's his little movie-l'orrore, a past inarchiviabile of nights in the open, mice, frost. And the fu-ture? You have only to assomiglias ¬ though the present. If you must re ¬ expresses a wish, 'would like to kitchen just bigger, that we can cook with my sister and her friends. " Maybe sarmale, rolls of cabbage that is said to be a teacher, "to serve, as you do with polenta.
BUT IN EUROPE WINS THE HARD LINE
are nearly 900 of the Roma from Bulgaria and Romania forcibly returned from France, despite the calls the UN and the European Commission, because they are considered a "threat to public order." And while the far-right party Jobbik Hungarian forward the proposal to the Roma community in the country in "closed camps", even in Italy the weather heats up: Interior Minister Maroni promises to be even harder for Sarkozy and administrators perpetrators of the great cities of evacuation plans for each new systematic abuse. In Rome, where a curious collective psychosis of the first reports of alleged sightings "machines rom with French number plates," the mayor Alemanno has just dismantled the squatter camp of Quartaccio. In Milan, still Rubattino, the deputy mayor De Corato 125th implemented the eviction of the year, while the only regular field of the city, via Triboniano by October will be dismantled to make way for the road linking the city to the area where the Expo will be held in 2015.
