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Romani: Step by Step Integration
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Mitko!
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Mitko!
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Why aren't you in school?
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I wanted to but I was waiting for my mom
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and she didn't come
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Go back home and go to school! I don't want to see you out there okay?!
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I'll go to school in order to check!
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This is Jerome. His everyday life is to check Romani
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He helps them and also controls them.
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Today, he meets a family which left a squat recently.
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Oh nice! You have your residence permits
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The residence permits! Fortunately the kids were here, otherwise you wouldn't have residence permits.
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Thanks to the kids who are very good children
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the mother quickly received the residence permits
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Veneta, The model school girl.
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I am learning history
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I am learning mathematics
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I am learning geometry
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Did you speak French before coming here?
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No
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Do you like France?
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No!
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Why?
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Because!
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Because you want to go back to your country?
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Do you miss your friends?
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There are some people who would envy Veneta.
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Like here, in Saint-Michael Market.
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The gypsies see anything and everything.
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Here, this woman is 16 years old
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She's homeless and she's pregnant
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Going to school is not really her goal
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The doctors say that the baby has short arms and legs
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and they think it's because she sleeps on the floor and because it's cold outside
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Me, I would like to have a residence permit and a home
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I want to keep my baby safe and have a normal family life
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Do you think all of this is possible if you don't even speak French?
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I don't know.
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Zornitsa will probably never go to school
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Future mother and homeless
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But here, in Bordeaux, it sounds like hope invaded the squats
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At school, I play some sports
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mathematics
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I like my school. I have friends.
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When I'm older, I want to become a doctor
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Borislava, future doctor
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And they're right! Nowadays, the city helps
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those who really want to become integrated.
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School is a way out for those youth
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Do you know what a verb is?
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It's a word that explains what we do
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The aim of my job is to help them to be at ease
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at school, and to make them talk.
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The school helps them to learn French and also
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the good manners
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and teach us how to live together in harmony.
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We are creating an opportunity.
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We're making a few pages of a book.
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They are writing a book together.
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Isabelle, integration teacher
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If such initiatives exist, it is thanks to the City Hall,
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and one person in particular
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Alexandra Siarri - Deputy Major
We're creating a partnership with the board of education
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in order to send teenagers to school who have never even been in a class
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It is a triple partnership. Between the Board of Education, the city or Bordeaux and firms.
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Firms that have a negative experience with squats
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Water robbery, electricity ... cables...
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There is a gypsy who never went to school
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However, this is the perfect example of integration and success
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He's got a job, pay his rent like anyone
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It's Leonard
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I want my children to go to school
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to have good marks
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I want to support and pay for their studies
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In order to prove that romani children can go on and have a good education
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I really want them to be a good example for all
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Leonard - model of integration
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Out of the walls of school, we, the youth, have to
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build a world made of diversity, respect and
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mutual aid
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Special thanks to:
Jerome Lobao - Social meditation
Alexandra Siarri - Deputy Mayor The City Hall of Bordeaux
Medhi for the microphone
Isabelle Soriano, the school teacher
Anna Kolibarova for the traduction
All the romani I met with and spoke to, who allowed me to film them and their children
Hicham Chahidi for the free music
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