Dozens of Roma families from the village Plemetin have migrated to the European Union countries in the past few months. Their favorite destination is France, where they feel they have greater chances to win asylum status. Roma families in Kosovo complain for poor living conditions and high unemployment rate have pushed them to flee Kosovo. Ismet Haliti is one of the members of this community who is unemployed and has an eight-member family. He says that he would follow the example of others, to migrate to the EU, if he had the money. “From our community I think there are somewhere around 60 families who fled. Mostly they went to France where they think that can easily be granted asylum. I am unemployed and forced to gather garbage cans for living, because I have six children at home. All here are unemployed and have no reason to stay in Kosovo,” Haliti said.
Unemployment forcing Roma community to migrate (Koha)
- Published: 9 years ago on 17/03/2015
- By: eb
- Last Modified: March 17, 2015 @ 2:28 pm
- Filed Under: Development/Humanitarian
- Tagged With: Koha, migration, Roma
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