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Victims of discrimination

The following tables show some selected results of the Fundamental Rights Agency’s EU-MIDIS survey. Over 23 500 members of ethnic minority and immigrant groups across the EU were asked about their experiences of discrimination and racist crime.


Key Findings

The Roma as victims of discrimination

On average, across nine areas of everyday life, the Roma were discriminated against because of their ethnic background more than any other group surveyed in EU-MIDIS.

Every second Roma respondent (47%) said that they had been discriminated against on the basis of their ethnicity at least once in the previous 12 months.

This is followed by Sub-Saharan Africans (41%), North Africans (36%), Central and Eastern Europeans (23%), Turkish people (23%), Russian (14%) and Ex-Yugoslavs (12%).

Detailed breakdown of the discrimination results

In each EU Member State, between one and three immigrant, ethnic minority or national minority groups were surveyed. The groups were selected on the basis of their size (the largest minority group in a country) and whether or not the same minority group could be surveyed in several countries (so as to create “aggregate” groups and draw conclusions about discrimination faced by “North Africans” in the EU, for example) Existing information about the vulnerability of different groups to discrimination and victimisation in the different EU Member States was also taken into account.

About the survey


Discrimination areas EU-MIDIS asked respondents about discrimination they had experienced, in the past 12 months or in the past 5 years, on the basis of their immigrant or ethnic minority background, in nine areas:

1) when looking for work
2) at work
3) when looking for a house or an apartment to rent or buy
4) by healthcare personnel
5) by social service personnel
6) by school personnel
7) at a café, restaurant or bar
8) when entering or in a shop
9) when trying to open a bank account or get a loan
.


For a more detailed breakdown of the discrimination results see the Main Results Report

Main Results Report

For a more detailed breakdown of the discrimination results see the full report