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SITUATION OF ROMANIAN ROMA LIVING IN ENCAMPMENTS IN POLAND AND OPPORTUNITIES OF PARTICIPATION IN SPORTING ACTIVITIES THE CASE OF POZNAŃ

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Czarnota K.

Society Register

2018

vol. 2

issue 1

77-98

The phenomenon of migration and the challenges in the new hosting country have been often analysed in relation to the newcomers arriving from states outside of the European Union. However, in Poland these are the citizens of the EU who face discrimination. At the same time, despite the principles of the EU programs concerning different spheres and operations of integrative and inclusive character aimed at foreign nationals, including sport initiatives, Roma have been systematically omitted and excluded since the 1990s. This situation caused this group to be deprived of the right to work, health care, welfare and adequate housing and education. Opportunities of participating in sporting activities are very limited. In Poland, only a few non-governmental organisations and anti-racist activist initiatives attempt to cooperate with the members of this community. The first part of the article contains a broad introduction to the situation of Romanian Roma in Poland which is necessary in the light of the lack of studies on this subject within Polish sociology, and allows the reader to grasp the wider context of the discussion on the issue of access to sporting activities. Then, drawing on the research and activist experience, the author describes local sport initiatives available to Roma children living in the Poznań encampment, with emphasis on informal initiatives.

Uczac sie od romskiego koczowiska

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Weychert-Waluszko M.

Studia Romologica

2016

vol. 9

81-97

Roma from Romania have been setting their camps in Poland since the early 1990s, so for a quarter of a century now. Yet this phenomenon of inhabitation has not been too often subjected to theoretical or conceptual reflection. This essay focuses on the possible reasons of this exclusion: entrenched stereotypes that obscure the socio-economic background of Roma migrations, as well as on the significant difference between the permanent architecture of houses or housing schemes inhabited by Roma versus the temporary architecture of the camps. An analysis of cultural texts indicates a shared interest in this temporary dwellings on the part of the historical Situationists and contemporary Polish and Roma visual artists; the Dutch architect Constant’s utopia of nomadic cities belongs to the former. Today the architecture of Roma camps can be treated not only as a ‘shadow architecture’ excluded from the public discourse, but also as an inspiration and challenge for present-day thinking about housing design: low-cost, time-effective, in tune with ecological and recycling ideas.

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SITUATION OF ROMANIAN ROMA LIVING IN ENCAMPMENTS IN POLAND AND OPPORTUNITIES OF PARTICIPATION IN SPORTING ACTIVITIES THE CASE OF POZNAŃ

Uczac sie od romskiego koczowiska