Study: Roma children without chances dt
Around 12.000 Roma and members of other minority groups are threatened to be deported to Kosovo. Around 5.000 of them are children and minors. Most of them were born and raised in Germany. They face social exclusion and massive discrimination upon their arrival in Kosovo.
Aus shown by a recently published UNHCR Study, 75% of deported children drop out of school. Even when they do have the opportunity to visit a school, deported children remain isolated. Since many of them have German as their first language communication is difficult for them. The deportation thus means an abrupt discontinuation of their schooling carreer as well as social uprooting. For children socialized in Germany deportation is a banishment from their home, nothing connects them to their parent's country of origin. The study also shows that every third Roma child in Kosovo lives in extreme poverty. On an average the interviewed families had lived in Germany for 14 years. Every seconded family tended to a chronically sick family member.
In April 2010 Germany and Kosovo signed a readmission agreement. Up to 2.500 people are to be deported on a yearly basis. In Kosovo the perspective for deported people is literally a life in the gutters.
Therefore, deportations to Kosovo have to be stopped immidiately and a generous arrangement allocating residence permits needs to be created.
