European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2017), Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey - Migrant women - selected findings, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna.
Country
Austria
Belgium
Cyprus
Denmark
Germany
Greece
Finland
France
Ireland
Italy
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
Title
European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (2017), Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey - Migrant women - selected findings, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna.
View full ResearchYear
2019
Type of publication
Survey - quantitative research
Geographical coverage
EU comparative
Area/location of interest
Not applicable - national level
Type of Institution
EU body
Institution
FRA | European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Main Thematic Focus
Hate crime Incitement to hatred or violence Racism & xenophobia Integration & inclusion
Target Population
Muslims Migrants Ethnic minorities People of African descent & Black Europeans Religious minorities People with migrant background
Key findings
Migrant women face multiple challenges fully integrating into European society. This is often due to inequalities resulting from the combined effect of their gender, migrant status and ethnic background, as FRA’s latest report testifies. It underlines the need for targeted, gender-sensitive measures to compensate for such inequalities.
FRA’s report on migrant women highlights the various challenges these women face, despite their wide diversity in backgrounds, residence status and educational levels.
Methodology (Qualitative/Quantitative and exact type used, questionnaires etc)
The findings presented in this report are based on interviews, in 15 EU Member States, with self-identified immigrants and descendants.
25,515 respondents living in 22,690 households were interviewed.
This report examines the results of EU-MIDIS II in relation to immigrants and descendants of immigrants in 19 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom).
Among the 16,149 EU-MIDIS II respondents with an immigrant background, half are women (50 %); however, there are substantial variations across countries and the survey’s target groups.
The main interview mode for EU-MIDIS II was Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) – that is, face-toface interviews administered by interviewers using a
computerised questionnaire. The English source questionnaire, developed by FRA, was translated into 22 EU languages as well as into Arabic, Kurdish, Russian, Somali, Tamazight and Turkish.
Advanced and new sampling ethodologies had to be developed and employed in most countries. Areas with lower densities of the target population were excluded.
Sample details and representativeness
EU-MIDIS II collected information from 25,515 respondents with different ethnic minority and immigrant backgrounds across all 28 EU Member States. The EU-MIDIS II sample is representative for the selected population groups that were surveyed.
The sample includes groups with persons belonging to ethnic or national minorities, Roma and Russians, as well as persons born outside the EU (first-generation respondents) and individuals with at least one parent born outside the EU (second-generation respondents). All respondents were aged 16 years or older, and had lived in private households for at least 12 months before the survey.
EU-MIDIS II covered the following groups under the concept
‘immigrants and descendants of immigrants’:
• Immigrants and descendants of immigrants from
Turkey (in 6 EU Member States);
• Immigrants and descendants of immigrants from
North Africa (in 5 EU Member States);
• Immigrants and descendants of immigrants from
Sub-Saharan Africa (in 12 EU Member States);
• Immigrants and descendants of immigrants from
South Asia and Asia (in 4 EU Member States);
• Recent immigrants from other non-EU/EFTA countries
(in 2 EU Member States);
• Russian minorities (in 3 EU Member States);
• Roma (in 9 EU Member States).
DISCLAIMERThe information presented here is collected under contract by the FRA's research network FRANET. The information and views contained do not necessarily reflect the views or the official position of the FRA.