Word: roma
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...from the start, with Utah Republican Orrin G. Hatch acting as one of the leading co-sponsors. The legislation stalled in the Senate late last year and was shelved, according to a Washington source, until after the 2008 elections. Heberto Alanis, Jr. ’12, a native of Roma, Texas, which is located just a few miles from the Mexican border, said that the DREAM Act “makes a lot of sense.” “Immigration has played a large role in making this country more diverse,” Alanis said, adding that...
...pulled away in his Fiat, Claudio, whose job was to work with Bologna's growing immigrant population, conceded that the issues facing the Roma were different. "You have to start with the kids," he said. "Too often, the parents are no longer really reachable." If this week's meeting in Brussels can answer the question of how to do that, it would be a breakthrough indeed...
...Plans by Italy's center-right government to fingerprint Roma residents in a mandatory census have also drawn fire, despite the fact that the E.U. ruled earlier this month that the scheme was legal because it was not aimed at tracking people by ethnic background, but rather fingerprinting those who had no other way of being identified...
...Confronting the Roma issue in 2008 raises questions about immigration and citizenship, identity and belonging, social policy, individual freedom and collective accountability. With their ancestry tracing back to the Indian subcontinent, the Roma settled, over the centuries, across many parts of the world, but especially in central and eastern Europe. Poor and often living apart from mainstream society, an estimated 1 million Roma went to their deaths in Nazi camps in World...
...legal right to be in an E.U. member state, are typically aching to cooperate with authorities in order to gain legal residency or citizenship. After centuries living on the margins of established European society, often choosing separate schooling and housing, it can still be difficult to pin down what Roma want from the state. Seeing the issue through the eyes of Claudio the social worker was a reminder of how much this unique ethnic group confounds fixed ideas. Bologna is one of Italy's most productive and politically progressive cities, and officials make some effort to help the Roma there...