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Childless Slovaks said to be avoiding
romany adoptions
The director of the International Adoption Center within the Slovak Labor, Social Affairs, and Family Ministry said on 10 March that Slovak couples show no interest in adopting Romany orphans, CTK reported. "Slovak adoptive parents adopt some 300 children each year, but these are all non-Romany children," Alena Matejova said. Some 3,500 children are housed in 90 Slovak orphanages, CTK reported. Under Slovak law, orphans may only be adopted by foreigners if no interest is shown domestically. Matejova said about 20 prospective parents from Canada and France have expressed an interest in adopting Slovak Roma, and three are already in the care of adoptive parents abroad. MS RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 7, No. 46, Part II, 11 March 2003.
Published on 2003-04-07
Czech government to monitor growing influx
of Slovak roma
Cabinet ministers decided on 12 March to monitor the growing numbers of Roma who move to the Czech Republic from neighboring Slovakia, CTK reported the next day, citing the daily "Hospodarske noviny." Deputy Premier Petr Mares will oversee the monitoring and report to the government. More than 500 Slovak Roma requested asylum in the Czech Republic in the second half of 2002, and 5,000-20,000 are estimated to have moved in with relatives in the Czech Republic in 2003 without filing such requests. Most are thought to be seeking to escape unemployment and drastic cuts in social benefits in Slovakia. Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda said the government decided against approaching Slovak authorities on the matter. "We cannot advise neighboring countries what social policy they should pursue, and we cannot send development aid to a country that is preparing to join the EU," Svoboda said. MS RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 7, No. 48, Part II, 13 March 2003.
Published on 2003-04-07
New Roma book: A People on the Edge
AUTHOR PUBLISHING LTD
ADVANCE INFORMATION SHEET
TITLE: Roma: A People on the Edge
ISBN: 1 898030 64 2
PRICE: £ 9.50
AUTHOR: Martyn Clayton
Imprint: Braiswick
Publication Date: March 2003
Category: Social history
Specification: Papaperback, 250 pages, 140 x 216mm.
WHO WILL BUY Historians, readers of European social history, those
interested in Gypsy history and culture. Local government officers,
police and anyone coming into contact with Gypsies.
This is contested and controversial ground. Written by a gadjo (or
gorgio; non-Romani) it is a dispassionate examination of the misery
inflicted on the Roma through the centuries.
The Roma have long been the subject of academic and literary attention, but only over the past fifty years of so have they begun to claw back the right to define who they are for themselves. This is a portrayal of
Gypsy matters as they really are for thousands of Romani families across
the world. It doesn’t always make for easy reading and some of the
full-frontal accounts of the horrors to which the Roma have been
subjected should not be read merely as literary shockers. Such accounts
are included because they happened and go some way to explaining the
feelings the Roma have towards the gadjo.
The Roma live somewhere in the back of our collective imagination,
either as wandering romantics in painted wagons, or scrounging eastern
Europeans refugees begging on our city streets. Neither image is correct
and it is these misconceptions are challenged in this book.
The author is a professional journalist, this book is carefully
researched and this book is a clear, readable account that should do
much to redress the image of the Gypsy.
More detail at www.author.co.uk/clayton
Trevor Lockwood
Author Publishing Ltd
Published on 2003-04-07
