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didn’ț let me în, șo I went back to the police station and I asked them what to do and they said: “ Well, sit down on this chair, what else can you do?”. (...) I hâd run away with just some clothes on, but I was wearing slippers and I hâd no keys. I wasn’ț afraid to go back, sometimes I was crazy bold, because I was în such a mess... who was to help me, who was to retrive
(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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have 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
Cunosc femei care suferă de foame, suportă umilinţe... şi nu ştiu că pot merge la centrele sindacaliste () [Corola-website/Science/296087_a_297416]
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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 them and have no clue how to handle the hardship, just endure it
Cunosc femei care suferă de foame, suportă umilinţe... şi nu ştiu că pot merge la centrele sindacaliste () [Corola-website/Science/296087_a_297416]
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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 that were most frequently violated by your employers?</b></i></spân></spân></spân></p> <spân style="font-size: medium;"><i>I went through mobbing for a while, then someone thought me what to do șo I filed a
Cunosc femei care suferă de foame, suportă umilinţe... şi nu ştiu că pot merge la centrele sindacaliste () [Corola-website/Science/296087_a_297416]
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started only 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
Căutam chirie zi de zi () [Corola-website/Science/296094_a_297423]
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also rooms 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
Căutam chirie zi de zi () [Corola-website/Science/296094_a_297423]
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quite a lot on what was going on at the Emergency Shelters, which normally are open to any homeless person between the 1st of November and the 31st of March (actually, they are not really open for everyone, there are some criteria), and on the 31st of March, people are evicted on the streets once more. For two years we have fought șo that people could remain în the Winter Shelters, because there are laws concerning the ”continuity of hosting” that
(English) Racism, Evictions and Organizing for the Housing Rights of Roma Migrants in France (part II) () [Corola-website/Science/296122_a_297451]
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a guarded tent câmp, built by the municipality, close to the barracks. Violene: Indeed, there was also a câmp set by the municipality - a „chateau” puț up after the expulsion of a Romă group from another squat în the city, some two or three years ago. Some of the families living în the barracks hâd relatives there, which they used to visit. În a way, the fact that this authorized câmp was there, determined a lot more people to move în
(English) Racism, Evictions and Organizing for the Housing Rights of Roma Migrants in France (part II) () [Corola-website/Science/296122_a_297451]
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the municipality, close to the barracks. Violene: Indeed, there was also a câmp set by the municipality - a „chateau” puț up after the expulsion of a Romă group from another squat în the city, some two or three years ago. Some of the families living în the barracks hâd relatives there, which they used to visit. În a way, the fact that this authorized câmp was there, determined a lot more people to move în close to it, hoping that they
(English) Racism, Evictions and Organizing for the Housing Rights of Roma Migrants in France (part II) () [Corola-website/Science/296122_a_297451]
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the playground they dream about when made to remain inside. We have asked ourselves, among other things, where we would live when we grow up? What is a home and what is it good for? If it is ok for some people not to have a home? With whom would we like to live, besides our family? What is our dream playground like? Below, some answers în words, drawings and collages. (Lăură Sandu and Mihail Dumitriu) What is a home? Lăură
În viitor - Am zis bine? () [Corola-website/Science/296102_a_297431]
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up? What is a home and what is it good for? If it is ok for some people not to have a home? With whom would we like to live, besides our family? What is our dream playground like? Below, some answers în words, drawings and collages. (Lăură Sandu and Mihail Dumitriu) What is a home? Lăură: Let’s imagine I were an alien. I know nothing of this world, șo I would like you to tell me, ladies and gentlemen
În viitor - Am zis bine? () [Corola-website/Science/296102_a_297431]
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tell me, do all people have a home? Half of the group: Yeeees! The other half: Noooo! Ionuț: Not all people have a home! Lăură: But how is that possible, if you need it for shelter în bad weather? Ștefan: Some people live on the streets. Lăură: Șo where do they get shelter? Where do they eat, where do they sleep? Rebeca: They ask for money and with it, they buy bread. Lăură: Do you think it is right for some
În viitor - Am zis bine? () [Corola-website/Science/296102_a_297431]
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Some people live on the streets. Lăură: Șo where do they get shelter? Where do they eat, where do they sleep? Rebeca: They ask for money and with it, they buy bread. Lăură: Do you think it is right for some people not to have a home? Half of the group: Yeeees! The other half: Noooo! Lăură: Misa, what do you think? Misa: If it is right? I think it is not right at all, everyone should have a roof over
În viitor - Am zis bine? () [Corola-website/Science/296102_a_297431]
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They all laugh.) ... and with dogs. Actually one dog... and a swimming pool. Bianca: I would like a small house, not a villa. A small house. With two rooms. And I would love to have two pigs, one sheep and some chickens. And a garden... Alex: I would love to have a villa and live there with my family and my friend, Oncescu. Lăură: Is there anyone else who would like to share a home with their friends? All: Yes, meeeee
În viitor - Am zis bine? () [Corola-website/Science/296102_a_297431]
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children. I left for the first time în 1999. I left together with my children carrying their schoolbags and books. It was that really difficult period, when we knew we wouldn’ț get a place to stay, but we hâd some hope. I improvised a “home” ouț of two mattresses. I would lay a mattress down on the ground, and another one leaning against a wall, aș a roof. That’s how we slept. How long did you sleep like that
Când casa ți-e o prelată și-o saltea, un pat îți pare un vis! () [Corola-website/Science/296090_a_297419]
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after a couple of years, when I managed to get contracted work, I returned for the last two. I took them all with me and I worked together with my oldest son, hardly earning enough to eat and to send some money back home. The child stayed alone în Spain? </strong> Our son stayed with some relatives. My husband hâd to leave quickly, șo the relatives said they will take care of the boy; they said it’s better for the
Când casa ți-e o prelată și-o saltea, un pat îți pare un vis! () [Corola-website/Science/296090_a_297419]
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the last two. I took them all with me and I worked together with my oldest son, hardly earning enough to eat and to send some money back home. The child stayed alone în Spain? </strong> Our son stayed with some relatives. My husband hâd to leave quickly, șo the relatives said they will take care of the boy; they said it’s better for the boy to stay în Spain. He was 13 years old, he was able to work
Când casa ți-e o prelată și-o saltea, un pat îți pare un vis! () [Corola-website/Science/296090_a_297419]
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em> Sometimes I would work for ten hours în a row, standing în the sun. My face would shrivel. I would ask the boss to allow my kids to help me, șo we’d fill up more containers and earn some more. I really wished I could send them to school everyday, to be educated, but I couldn’ț. When the other workers were taking breaks to eat, I wouldn’ț. I’d keep working, to earn some more. I didn
Când casa ți-e o prelată și-o saltea, un pat îți pare un vis! () [Corola-website/Science/296090_a_297419]
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containers and earn some more. I really wished I could send them to school everyday, to be educated, but I couldn’ț. When the other workers were taking breaks to eat, I wouldn’ț. I’d keep working, to earn some more. I didn’ț leave the country because we were doing well, and we weren’ț working like crazy because we wanted to build a palace! We were working to survive, șo that we’d get to live another day
Când casa ți-e o prelată și-o saltea, un pat îți pare un vis! () [Corola-website/Science/296090_a_297419]
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wish “abroad” didn’ț even exist for my family. “Abroad” dehumanizes you. All the humiliation you endure! And for the money you earn, you work until there’s nothing left of you. It’s good when you manage to save some money, but your heart is broken! [...] Here în România you cannot earn enough to survive. [...] The lack of jobs is the biggest problem. I told my children: “save the money that you earn there and do something here, șo that
Când casa ți-e o prelată și-o saltea, un pat îți pare un vis! () [Corola-website/Science/296090_a_297419]
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we managed to stay, approximately 40 people were sheltered în four rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a hallway. I would share a small bed with my niece, on the hallway. There were four army beds crammed on that hallway. Some people would sleep în the house, others outside în the yard. We lived there for one year. [...] What gave you strength during those times? </strong> A woman în Cordoba once told me: “Keep fighting, my girl, don’ț give up
Când casa ți-e o prelată și-o saltea, un pat îți pare un vis! () [Corola-website/Science/296090_a_297419]
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Keep fighting, my girl, don’ț give up! Hang în there and it will get better!” And indeed little by little it got better. Now my children have a home, they don’ț struggle the way I struggled, they have some savings, it’s a bit better for them. Did you go to school? </strong> I finished four grades. When I was a child, we were poor aș well, but somehow we hâd our basic needs covered. My mom was working
Când casa ți-e o prelată și-o saltea, un pat îți pare un vis! () [Corola-website/Science/296090_a_297419]
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their parents working all the time - are very stressed ouț! When did the situation în Turnu-Măgurele worsened?</strong> After the ‘89s Revolution. When the borders opened, people left to work and live abroad, wherever they could. During the first years, some managed to do something for themselves, but others remained poor. The factory was ruined, the textile factory was șold, all the state-owned companies în Turnu-Măgurele were șold and the people were left on their own. It was like we were
Când casa ți-e o prelată și-o saltea, un pat îți pare un vis! () [Corola-website/Science/296090_a_297419]
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working abroad în the 1990s</b></i></spân></spân></p> Like many Romanians, after the Revolution, Criști went to work în Germany. He crossed the border, he occupied an abandoned house, and passed by Rostock în the very night when some hundreds of fascists were attacking a home that was sheltering thousands of migrants and asylum seekers from Eastern Europe (including România). </spân></spân></p> I went to Germany în 1992-1993. A sister of mine hâd went there with her husband
Te așteptai să-ți dea ce e mai bun () [Corola-website/Science/296092_a_297421]
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was just fine, she managed to walk one way or another, without stopping. We passed by those people, no one saw uș, but, I don’ț know how to explain it, we were walking, leaving one particular place, then approaching some lights and thinking it was the road.</p> Listen, those lights were there, you walked right towards them, and în a while you realized you hâd returned to the same place you hâd just left! Three times we went through
Te așteptai să-ți dea ce e mai bun () [Corola-website/Science/296092_a_297421]