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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Angel, Ronald J.
• Angel, Jacqueline L.

Titel

A Majority Minority Nation

Ist Teil von

• Latinos in an Aging World, 2015, p.10-42

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Over the centuries the Roma, descendants of an ancient nomadic tribe with origins in Northern India, settled in many European countries and migrated even as far as the United States (McGarry, 2010). They are one of the ethnic groups that are referred to as "gypsies," with all of the negative connotations that the term conveys. What one immediately notices about the Roma almost everywhere they settle is that they are generally not welcome and do not fit easily into the host society. The Roma live at the physical and social margins of the cities to which they have migrated; there they face discrimination and rejection as unwelcome outsiders (Nolan, 2011). The Roma are not the only outsiders who face rejection. In 2010 during a speech before the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Potsdam, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that Germany's attempt to create a multicultural society had been an utter failure (Siebold, 2010). Expressing similar sentiments, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France appealed to conservative sentiments during his failed 2012 re-election campaign by proclaiming that France had too many immigrants (Samuel, 2012). Recently, Prime Minister David Cameron of the United Kingdom pledged to restrict the use of social services by immigrants (Castle & Cowell, 2013). As an austerity measure Spain, which had been providing medical care to all residents, has informed illegal immigrants that they will no longer receive care at public expense (Govan, 2012).