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HEARING THE VOICE OF GYPSIES AND TRAVELLERS
Gypsy and Traveller Community OrganisationTSRC Conference – University of Birmingham 8th November
Dr Andrew Ryder (Research Fellow, University of Bristol and TSRC Associate Fellow -
[email protected] Sean Risdale – Advisory Council on the Education of Roma and Travellers
Email - [email protected]
www.acert.org.uk
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Big Society?• The Gypsy and community spokesperson Gloria
Buckley MBE, reflecting on the Coalition Government flagship policy entitled the ’Big Society’, commented:
• ‘I don’t know what ‘Big Society’ is. If, as has been suggested, it is local communities, neighbourhoods and families looking after each other, then Gypsies and Travellers have always been members of a Big Society; it has been the only one we could rely on’ (Ryder, et al., 2011, 39).
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Who Are the Gypsies and Travellers?• 300,000 Gypsies, Irish Travellers in Britain• One of the most excluded groups in society (CRE, 2006, Cemlyn et al,
2009). • Life-expectancy is 10 – 12 years less than for members of the settled
community (Van Cleemput, 2008)• Profound educational exclusion in school.
In 2007 15.6% of Irish Travellers and 14 % of Gypsy/ Roma achieved 5+ A*-C GSCEs or GNVQs compared to 59.3% of all pupils (DCSF 2008).
• One fifth of caravan dwelling population has no authorised sites
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Exclusion and Community Development
• Bonding forms of social capital – boundaries• The Traveller Economy• PaternalismArnstein’s Ladder of Participation
• Ethnogenesis – 1966 The Gypsy Council• Charismatic leadership• 20 Gypsy and Traveller groups on the charities register
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Inclusive Forms of Community Development• The GRT third sector – moving away from NGOisation• Positive action – employment – role models – gender• Asset based community development – search conferences –
forums – panels – support – social enterprise• Tenants and Residents’Associations• Links with service providers ‘personalisation’• Roma groups
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Looking to the Future
• Cutbacks and funding • Localism• UK inter-ministerial report – non consultation• The European Framework for Roma Integration Strategies
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Empowerment and Community Organisation at Dale Farm
• The original families at Dale Farm allowed to settle ‘lawfully’ The other 30 families become ‘unlawful’ after 2006 ruling by Sec. Of State supporting Basildon BC
• Although collectively designated ‘Green Belt,’ most of Dale Farm land strips previously scrap yards
• Solidarity since 2006 between ‘lawful’ and ‘unlawful’ Dale Farm residents – mutual care and support between all the extended families
• Grattan Puxon - Dale Farm Residents Association
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The Voice of Dale Farm Residents
• Dale Farm Residents Association sets up its Website • Local activists and local RC Church support Dale Farm
families in run up to eviction deadline• July 2011 – national activists move into Dale Farm
and create Camp Constant with support of residents• October 2011 – £7m spent on violent eviction• 30 evicted families now living on roadside leading up
to Dale Farm – eviction site declared a health hazard• Traveller Solidarity Network formed November 2011
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Further Reading – See TSRC Papers• Paper 63: UK Gypsies and Travellers and the third sector, Dr
Andrew Ryder (July 2011) • Paper 84: Hearing the voice of Gypsies and Travellers: the history,
development and challenges of Gypsy and Traveller tenants and residents’ associations (2012)
• Discussion Paper: THE REAL BIG SOCIETY: Gypsy Traveller Tenants and Residents’ Associations and the Role Of Social Capital and Empowerment in Reversing Exclusion
• Visit to Dale Farm Travellers Site : A year on from the eviction, Report by members of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Gypsies, Roma and Travellers (Sept. 2012)
• Traveller Solidarity Network : A guide to showing solidarity with travellers in your area ( 2012 )