DiscriRromani Sevilla 2025: Evidence and solutions to structural discrimination
The DiscriRromani Sevilla 2025 project, developed by La Fragua Projects with the support of Seville City Council, presents a comprehensive analysis of intersectional discrimination and structural anti-Roma sentiment in the city. This report, the result of participatory work and direct intervention, highlights how inequalities persist in key areas such as education, social services and health, systematically affecting the Roma community and other racialised groups.
Among the most significant findings is the observation that the education system perpetuates structural discrimination, with practices that reinforce school segregation and dropout rates, as well as the exclusion of Romani culture from the curriculum. In the field of social services, there is a deep mistrust of the administration, which is perceived as bureaucratic and inhumane, with documented cases of humiliating treatment and irregular practices. In healthcare, the report highlights institutional biases linked to stereotypes and surnames, leading to serious situations such as attempts at sterilisation and discriminatory treatment of Roma women.
The project is not limited to research: it has filed complaints regarding hate crimes, mediated in cases of exclusion from healthcare and eviction, and developed an innovative digital strategy to advise and support those affected. These actions have had a tangible impact on institutions, involving bodies such as the Public Prosecutor’s Office, regional ministries and local authorities.
The conclusions are clear: structural discrimination is not the exception, but a persistent pattern. The report therefore sets out urgent recommendations, including: compulsory anti-racism training for public sector staff; protocols to combat school segregation; the inclusion of Romani history and culture in the curriculum; and a review of social services practices to ensure transparency and dignified treatment.
This document serves as a strategic tool for moving towards a public administration that is fairer, more equitable and more respectful of diversity. We invite institutions, professionals and members of the public to familiarise themselves in detail with the report’s findings and proposals, which can be viewed in full via the following link:
The 2025 reissue updates a tool launched in 2024 to make it easier to report incidents of racism and xenophobia. Available in Spanish and Catalan, it features a new visual design with original illustrations by Rocio Montoya Doblas.
What we are presenting today is a reprint of theStudy-Guide to Facilitate the Reporting of Acts Violating the Right to Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination on Racist and/or Xenophobic Grounds, a tool launched in 2024 to provide legal information and practical resources to individuals and organisations facing situations of racial discrimination.
Produced by La Fragua Projects, the Guide is part of the Racial Justice & Empowerment project and combines analysis, reflection and practical guidance to help tackle a reality that is as persistent as it is overlooked: the under-reporting of incidents of racism and discrimination.
A tool that continues to grow
The new edition remains true to the aim with which the publication was first launched: to help people affected by discrimination to better understand their rights and the mechanisms available to defend them. At the same time, it updates the content, reviews the resources and builds on a tool that had already proved its worth in its first edition.
The publication addresses issues relating to structural racism, under-reporting and institutional responses to discrimination, whilst providing practical information on administrative, judicial and social channels for reporting rights violations.
The guide pays particular attention to everyday areas where discrimination continues to occur frequently, such as employment, housing, education, healthcare, social services, public spaces and hate crime.
A publishing venture that combines art with a unique perspective
One of the most notable features of this reprint is the inclusion of the original illustrations by Rocio Montoya Doblas, a professional Romani illustrator whose artwork complements and enhances the content of the publication.
The illustrations lend the work its own distinctive character and help to make the content – which, in many cases, relates to legal and administrative matters – more accessible. The visual approach transforms the document into a tool that engages with different forms of expression and seeks to reach a diverse audience without compromising on rigour.
This new edition also features a new layout designed by Rocio Montoya Doblas and Iñaki Vázquez Arencón, further enhancing the publication’s polished and accessible nature.
Collective knowledge for the defence of rights
The publication has been coordinated by Iñaki Vázquez Arencón and features contributions from Pastora Filigrana García and Francisco Vargas Porras, members of the Roma Professional Network set up by the organisation.
From an anti-racist and human rights perspective, the Study-Guide highlights some of the factors that continue to make it difficult to report instances of discrimination: a lack of awareness of existing procedures, a lack of trust in institutions, and the normalisation of experiences of discrimination that form part of the everyday lives of many racialised people.
A tool serving communities
Reissuing and updating this publication reaffirms our commitment to ensuring access to rights, generating useful knowledge and strengthening our capacity to respond to racism and xenophobia.
With this new edition, the RJE Study Guide continues along the path it set out on in 2024 and reinforces its aim of being a practical tool at the service of individuals, communities and organisations that work every day towards a fairer, more diverse society, free from discrimination.
Source: La Fragua Projects Illustrations: Rocio Montoya
This initiative, organised by the Romanó Institute for Social and Cultural Affairs, held one of its online sessions on 22 October
Our colleague at La Fragua Projects, Iñaki Vázquez Arencón, was the speaker at one of the sessions of the 2025 edition of the project ‘Intervention Strategies for the Disadvantaged Rroma Community’. His presentation was entitled ‘Experiences and reflections from a perspective of critical activism and rigorous professional practice’. The online training session took place on 22 October 2025 and lasted just over two hours.
In his presentation, Iñaki outlined key findings regarding the current situation of the Rroma population in Spain, the threats identified, the barriers they face, and the challenges confronting both public authorities and Roma and pro-Roma civil society organisations.
This project by the Romanó Institute for Social and Cultural Affairs is supported by the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and the 2030 Agenda as part of its call for proposals to support social projects using funds from the 0.7% levy.
This second edition features a series of presentations that are of great interest both to members of Rroma and pro-Rroma organisations, and to managers and/or specialists from public bodies working with the Roma community.
The participation of those enrolled in the project’s training activities is particularly significant. Following Iñaki’s presentation, a question-and-answer session took place, leading to an interesting debate on the need to implement a robust set of anti-discrimination projects and measures, alongside a strong commitment to participation, complementing the now-established initiatives for social inclusion and the fight against poverty, all with the aim of ensuring that social investment has a genuine impact on the Rroma community.
The city's Cultural Centre is hosting this new meeting of the Cafè Barcelona project.
Once again, 16 diverse people, drawn from the margins—geographical, social and symbolic. They reunited with joyful embraces and smiles. Cups once again brimming with coffee and herbal infusions, and once more the four hosts began the dialogue on pressing issues, eagerly jotting down phrases and ideas.
There's a sense of community in the group: everyone is different, yet at the same time we share a common thread. Something feels like home, and that fills us with satisfaction.
The bell from the café owner's wife tells us that twenty minutes have already passed and we need to get up and move to another table. This time it's other neighbourhoods of ours: La Mina (Sant Adrià de Besòs), La Mariola (Lleida), Camp Clar (Tarragona) and Torre Baró (Barcelona).
The topics, this time we're repeating two of them because of their gravity and how they affect us: the right to housing and labour precarity. But there are also two new topics, although they're too old for our collective memory: school segregation and political disaffection.
Intense dialogues, active listening, emotion and anger. Everything stems from respect and affection for one another. On this occasion, three little human beings grace us with their presence, and of course we make sure they're entertained and well-fed with snacks.
We're running out of coffee when someone asks us for time to pray according to their beliefs. Everyone stops, and a few minutes later the praying people return. An exercise in coexistence and respect.
Finally, once again, the harvest, where the hosts attempted to summarise the whole wealth of dialogue and ideas that had taken place at their respective table.
Everyone leaves eager to return and asking if they can invite such a friend or such another person. May joy change sides. Without joy, no revolution can blossom.
Source: La Fragua Projects Photos: La Fragua Projects
The workshops held at La Bòbila in Porta (Nou Barris – Barcelona) and at Espai Pomezia (La Florida – L'Hospitalet de Llobregat) were attended by people who have experienced racial discrimination and members of various associations.
On 3 and 17 October, the first ‘Legal Self-Defence Workshops Against Racism’ of this year’s ‘Racial Justice and Empowerment (RJE) 2025’ project took place.
The first of these took place at the Ateneu La Bòbila de Porta in Nou Barris (Barcelona), whilst the second was held at the Espai Pomezia in La Florida (L'Hospitalet de Llobregat). For these two workshops, we were supported by the Ateneu La Bòbila de Porta and LaFundició, respectively.
The “Racial Justice and Empowerment 2025” project is funded by Barcelona City Council, the Barcelona Provincial Council and the Department of Social Rights and Inclusion of the Government of Catalonia.
Attendance at both workshops was high, and the training was attended by a range of people who have experienced racism, as well as others from various organisations representing people of colour.
Furthermore, our colleague Iñaki Vázquez Arencón, together with other members of the Roma Professional Network, highlighted the need to adopt an anti-racist approach to the issue of under-reporting, shifting the focus away from the victims and towards the sources of existing discrimination, thereby challenging the prevailing narrative that blames the victims themselves for not reporting incidents sufficiently.
The project plans to hold two workshops this year. One will take place on 17 December at the Font de la Mina Cultural Centre (Sant Adrià de Besòs) and the other the following day at the LaFede premises, run by SOS Racisme (Barcelona).
Source: La Fragua Projects Photos: La Fragua Projects
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