Greece - 2012
Is there evidence of significant levels of segregation between minority groups and the majority population?
- Code:
- RED66
- Key Area:
- Housing & Segregation
- Strand(s):
- Racism, Discrimination
| Short Answer |
Yes. |
| Qualitative Info |
Roma face high segregation patterns. All reports and studies conclude that Roma settlements are isolated from the wider urban tissue and housing and living standards are far below the societal average. According to the National Committe for Human Rights (NCHR) 2009 report: ‘Roma usually settle, often for many years, on free real estate owned by the state, by municipalities and other public legal entities; and much more rarely on private land, tolerated or ignored by the owners or because of the latter’s inability to proceed to court measures’. According to the Greek Deputy Ombudsman for Quality of Life we interviewed: ‘the most important aspect of the situation […] is the indifference on behalf of the state, which simply tolerates the de facto existence of some populations on the periphery of some towns’. See among others: 4th ECRI report on Greece (2009) Pavlou M., Lykovardi K., Hormovitis D., Prokopi I. (2009), Housing Conditions of Roma in Greece: Vicious Circles & Consolidated Myths, |
| Data | |
| Groups affected/interested | Roma & Travelers |
| Type (R/D) | Anti-roma/ romaphobia |
| Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas | Housing, Integration - social cohesion |
| External Url | http://hudoc.ecri.coe.int/XMLEcri/ENGLISH/Cycle_04/04_CbC_eng/GRC-CbC-IV-2009-031-ENG.pdf; http://www.i-red.eu/resources/publications-files/hlhr-kemo-i-red_romahousing_greece2009.pdf |
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