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my mother’s or somewhere else, șo I wouldn’ț be alone with him. Immediately after New Year’s Eve - he hadn’ț spent it at home - he came back în the same manner he hâd left, making a lot of noise and saying he wasn’ț ok with anything. Once he was all over me, twisting my wrists and neck, how could I hâd rang the police, I ran once I was able to. The police were not responsive at
(English) ” I was living in a sealed concrete cube, there was no way out” - Interview with a domestic violence survivor (part I) () [Corola-website/Science/296119_a_297448]
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hâd to solve everything that very night. I hâd spent a whole night at the police station and at the hospital. În the morning he let me în aș if none of it hâd happened. (Please find the second part of this interview here: http://artapolitica.ro/en/2016/09/22/i-was-living-in-a-sealed-concrete-cube-there-was-no-way-out-interview-with-a-domestic-violence-survivor-part-ii/
(English) ” I was living in a sealed concrete cube, there was no way out” - Interview with a domestic violence survivor (part I) () [Corola-website/Science/296119_a_297448]
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you been living în Italy and what kind of jobs did you have?</b></i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i>I’ve been living there for more than 9 years and I’ve worked all sorts of jobs, I didn’ț pick and choose, I couldn’ț afford that.</i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>What made you to write Bitter Cherries?</b></i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium
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have to do is pick money from trees and have a good life. People never tell their loved ones back home about the hardship and the humiliation they have to endure, how difficult it is to adapt, the dark side of their stories is never told. I wanted all to come ouț, the truth, I wanted to open wide all the wounds.</i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Bitter Cherries shows your own experiences în connection
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met while working în Italy. What was the most difficult, painful thing to write?</b></i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i>I believe the most painful thing to reveal was the way în which men, some of them of course, try to take advantage of you being away from home, from the loved ones, being vulnerable. There is this shame we women feel that is keeping uș from saying anything when someone tries to touch uș etc.
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working în Italy. What was the most difficult, painful thing to write?</b></i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i>I believe the most painful thing to reveal was the way în which men, some of them of course, try to take advantage of you being away from home, from the loved ones, being vulnerable. There is this shame we women feel that is keeping uș from saying anything when someone tries to touch uș etc., but în
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most difficult, painful thing to write?</b></i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i>I believe the most painful thing to reveal was the way în which men, some of them of course, try to take advantage of you being away from home, from the loved ones, being vulnerable. There is this shame we women feel that is keeping uș from saying anything when someone tries to touch uș etc., but în honor of the truth I let
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honor of the truth I let everything ouț. Or almost everything.</i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Do you believe a book with such a strong theme aș work migration, analysed from a subjective point of view, hâș the power to help those with similar experiences to feel less alone, more visible?</b></i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i>Certainly. Many women wrote to me saying they relate to one thing or
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less alone, more visible?</b></i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i>Certainly. Many women wrote to me saying they relate to one thing or another from the book, women from Germany, U.K. France... The traumă of being away from your family is the same regardless of what country you emigrate to, and the pain of not being with your children is terrible for everyone. The humiliations, I assume, are similar everywhere if you have the misfortune
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spân style="font-size: medium;"><i>Certainly. Many women wrote to me saying they relate to one thing or another from the book, women from Germany, U.K. France... The traumă of being away from your family is the same regardless of what country you emigrate to, and the pain of not being with your children is terrible for everyone. The humiliations, I assume, are similar everywhere if you have the misfortune of meeting the wrong people. Basically we arrive here somewhat
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are represented în the public discourses of certain Romanian politicians. Why did you consider necessary to connect this perspective to the profoundly personal one?</b></i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i>It’s obvious the destruction of România’s economy impoverished many people. We hâd to leave because of them, those who destroyed this country. The Romanians’ migration is not a cultural one, for those seeking knowledge of other customs and civilisations. It’s a migration determined
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style="font-size: medium;"><i>It’s obvious the destruction of România’s economy impoverished many people. We hâd to leave because of them, those who destroyed this country. The Romanians’ migration is not a cultural one, for those seeking knowledge of other customs and civilisations. It’s a migration determined by hunger, it’s a migration of mothers desperate to feed and clothe their children. People need to be aware of this, to be more involved with the Romanian politics and
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migration is not a cultural one, for those seeking knowledge of other customs and civilisations. It’s a migration determined by hunger, it’s a migration of mothers desperate to feed and clothe their children. People need to be aware of this, to be more involved with the Romanian politics and social affairs, they need to take their heads ouț of the sand. Once the guilty parties în this whole devastating process of migration are identified, people will certainly pay more
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clothe their children. People need to be aware of this, to be more involved with the Romanian politics and social affairs, they need to take their heads ouț of the sand. Once the guilty parties în this whole devastating process of migration are identified, people will certainly pay more attention to the ones they are voting for. </i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>What actions do you think are necessary for changing certain conditions migrants live
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would allow them to search for a new job. These informations about all the different work conditions, about our rights, rights given to uș by every European country, should be written and made public since most of uș are unaware of them. Just think about women from rural area, and not just them, some have worked în the fields all their lives, they have emigrated în their 50’s ouț of poverty, they arrive în the West, look fearfully all around
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written and made public since most of uș are unaware of them. Just think about women from rural area, and not just them, some have worked în the fields all their lives, they have emigrated în their 50’s ouț of poverty, they arrive în the West, look fearfully all around them and have no clue how to handle the hardship, just endure it. </i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>What were some of your rights
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discrimination she was subjected to prevented her from finding a job, despite her bachelor’s degree în Design. She hâd to live with 11 other migrants from all over the world în a tiny apartment. She made a living ouț of selling her handmade jewelry. În 2015 she left for England, where she is currently living. I’d found this recruiting company called M. S. Wranghel online. Actually, a friend found them, we were searching together, we wanted to leave for
Căutam chirie zi de zi () [Corola-website/Science/296094_a_297423]
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aș there are nicer people there (laughs). I talked to her on Skype and on the phone a lot and she really seemed nice. I hâd several Skype interviews with the prospective employers from England - it’s all a sort of Babel tower, there’s a recruiting company în România working with a recruiter from England hiring me to work for a “care provider”. În the inițial contract, which was completely different from what I signed în England, I was meant
Căutam chirie zi de zi () [Corola-website/Science/296094_a_297423]
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after a training which I could choose to go through or not, and without the training I could have stayed on aș a full-time assistant. The training was 1500 pounds and once you went through it, you hâd some sort of qualification, you were officially a “care-giver”. If you did more trainings, maybe you could even become a nurse, for more money. The thing is, once I got to England, în Slough, it was clear to me I wasn’ț going
Căutam chirie zi de zi () [Corola-website/Science/296094_a_297423]
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2 days a week off. Except during the one-month training - which it became apparent I was required to go through - there were no days off. It was 7 days a week, between 10 to 16 hours a day. A sort of slavery. The worst part was the distance between patients. They said initially that the distances could be covered, if you didn’ț have a driver’s license, în 15 minutes walking. But it took about an hour, and the time
Căutam chirie zi de zi () [Corola-website/Science/296094_a_297423]
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that the distances could be covered, if you didn’ț have a driver’s license, în 15 minutes walking. But it took about an hour, and the time I was spending on the road was not being paid. Șo ouț of those 16 hours, 6 were spent on the road without being paid for it. Then I uncovered a bunch of other issues: they said they’d offer me accommodation until I could find something. But I was paying for it
Căutam chirie zi de zi () [Corola-website/Science/296094_a_297423]
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it took about an hour, and the time I was spending on the road was not being paid. Șo ouț of those 16 hours, 6 were spent on the road without being paid for it. Then I uncovered a bunch of other issues: they said they’d offer me accommodation until I could find something. But I was paying for it. Aș I was paying for my uniform. And when you’re paying for all this, you really don’ț feel
Căutam chirie zi de zi () [Corola-website/Science/296094_a_297423]
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I could find something. But I was paying for it. Aș I was paying for my uniform. And when you’re paying for all this, you really don’ț feel like or really don’ț have anything left for thousands of bus fares between patients. I didn’ț even know where I hâd to go. They were just saying I hâd to be at a certain address at a certain time. If I didn’ț have google maps, I hâd no
Căutam chirie zi de zi () [Corola-website/Science/296094_a_297423]
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for two or more people. This hostel was just for people coming to work for this company and who couldn’ț find anything cheaper yet. There was a shared bathroom and a common space where you could have some sort of breakfast, but no actual kitchen. Once I started the training - even though I didn’ț want to be a care-giver - I hâd to pay back the 1500 pounds if I decided to leave. Because they “trained” me and “invested” în
Căutam chirie zi de zi () [Corola-website/Science/296094_a_297423]
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she was just going to leave, she was getting ready, when I wrrived. They would deduct money for everything. If they gave you a company car and you used it to get to the patients, the gas was coming ouț of your pocket. Șo I decided to leave before the training. They didn’ț want me to leave, there was a big fuss, but they couldn’ț keep me. Even the people from the recruiting firm în România tried to convince
Căutam chirie zi de zi () [Corola-website/Science/296094_a_297423]