More than 25% of the 700,000 Roma (Roma) living in Spain are below the poverty line. They have suffered discrimination for centuries, yet today 1 every 4 Spaniards do not want their children to share classes with gypsy children and 40% would feel annoyed to have gypsies as neighbors. Prejudices are hard to beat. D.A.
Do gypsies suffer discrimination? (Guide for Roma organizations)
In Spain, gypsies have been victims of historical institutional discrimination since 1499, date in which the First Antigitana Pragmatics was promulgated, which obliged the members of this community to settle down with known trades in the different peninsular populations or, otherwise , to be expelled.
During the successive reigns of the Habsburgs the discriminatory policy against the Gypsy people continued being the dominant tonic, with express prohibitions to use distinctive signs of their way of life, culture and language, and the confinement to certain towns, where they had to register their filiation , office and properties. With the establishment of the Bourbons, a policy of assimilation that limits the displacement of the Gypsies continues, and even reaches their forced internment in the Almadén mines or the arsenals of Cartagena, Cádiz and El Ferrol, a Pragmatic approved by Carlos III in 1073 even prohibited the use of the term "gypsy", considering it a serious insult. The Constitution of Cádiz of 1812 was an important advance for the gypsies since, for the first time, it recognized their legal status as Spanish citizens. However, during the reign of Isabel II the gypsies were still forced to carry with them documents that identified them personally, as well as their properties, a situation that continued to be maintained at the beginning of the 20th century. Under the Franco regime, the Roma people continued to be subjected to serious discrimination. The Regulation of the Civil Guard of 1943, for example, established that "scrupulously guiding-associations-new-2.indd 13 04/01/2007 11:13:07 Practical action guide for NGOs and gypsy associations [14] ] Discrimination and Gypsy Community, the gypsies, taking great care to recognize all the documents they have, find out their way of life and how much it leads to an exact idea of their movements and occupations ... agreeing to take from them all the necessary news to prevent them from committing robberies ... »At present, despite the constitutional recognition of equal treatment, according to all opinion studies, gypsies are one of the groups most socially valued, as evidenced by the latest CIS barometer, developed in November 2005, which states that one in four Spaniards would not like their children to share class with gypsy students, or that more than 40% of Spaniards would feel very or very annoyed to have er as neighbors to gypsies. A 45.4% of the people surveyed for the study Roma Population and Employment promoted by the Fundación Secretariado Gitano, said they feel discriminated at some point in the labor process. This proportion means that some 215,000 Roma people claim to have directly suffered discrimination in the job search process or in the same job. On the other hand, the reports Discrimination and Community Gitana 2005 and 2006 of the FSG, collect 226 complaints of discrimination in the fields of employment, housing, health, health services, general goods and services, justice, the police, And the media.
Reproduced from; http://www.gitanos.org/publicaciones/discriminacionGuiaAsoc/asociaciones-06.pdf
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