Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey - Main results

Hate-motivated harassment too remains a scourge. While individuals believe their ethnic or immigrant background is the main reason for facing discrimination, they identify their names, skin colour and religion as additional triggers. Not surprisingly, experiences with discrimination and hate-motivated harassment and violence chip away at individuals’ trust in public institutions and undermine feelings of attachment to their country of residence.

The report follows up and expands on FRA’s first major EU-wide survey on minorities’ and migrants’ experiences, conducted in 2008. The survey focuses on discrimination in different settings, police stops, criminal victimisation, rights awareness and societal participation.

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A detailed overview of the research methods that FRA used to collect the survey data can be found in the Technical report.

All country data can also be found on our interactive data explorer. The data explorer offers additional filters to view data by age, gender or generation.