Periodic Reporting for period 1 - UNDETERRED (Unintentional discrimination detected and racism reveal and Deactivate)
Período documentado: 2023-03-01 hasta 2024-02-29
The UNDETERRED project aims to strengthen the fight against ethnic and religious inequalities experienced by young people (aged 18-35) from immigrant or national minority backgrounds in Europe. The study addresses discrimination in access to housing, employment, health and education. Coordinated by the University of Bordeaux, the UNDETERRED project is made up of a consortium of 11 partners, including 7 academic partners (the Universities of Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bucharest, Lausanne, Laval, Utrecht and Bordeaux) and 4 non-academic partners (Bordeaux Métropole, the URHAJ, the EPPPD Museum and the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce and Industry).
The hypothesis defended by the project is that some of the discrimination suffered by young people from immigrant backgrounds is due to the norms, practices and rules in force in institutions (even if they are legal), which are never challenged by the various players, or never fought. These young people have difficulty finding accommodation because they are asked for guarantees that they do not have. They have difficulty accessing education because, unlike children from other backgrounds, they do not have all the information they need to make informed choices. They can't find work placements because they don't have the right social network. Faced with this succession of small and large obstacles, inequalities in access and opportunities accumulate and the processes of exclusion continue from generation to generation.
Discrimination is part of a system in which different institutions operate (the school system, the health system, the labour market, social housing allocation bodies). The aim is to understand how these institutions operate, and then to identify the practices, rules and standards that have a discriminatory effect.
The aim is to interview the players working in the institutions to determine their degree of perception, in terms of discriminatory effect, of the impact of these standards, rules and practices. Are they aware of these effects? In-depth sociological work will be carried out to check that the players have not ultimately acted on the basis of a stereotype or negative prejudice towards these minority populations that they have 'validated' on the basis of information that they have deemed credible: political discourse and a certain way of processing information via social networks can lead to statistical discrimination. Young people from different backgrounds will also be asked about the practices, norms and rules that they themselves have identified as obstacles to their lives.
On the basis of the interviews, the aim is to draw up a typology of situations of 'exclusion/discrimination/reduction of opportunities/self-exclusion' experienced by young people from immigrant backgrounds, without the majority players fully perceiving the discriminatory aspect.
The hypothesis defended by the project is that some of the discrimination suffered by young people from immigrant backgrounds is due to the norms, practices and rules in force in institutions (even if they are legal), which are never challenged by the various players, or never fought. These young people have difficulty finding accommodation because they are asked for guarantees that they do not have. They have difficulty accessing education because, unlike children from other backgrounds, they do not have all the information they need to make informed choices. They can't find work placements because they don't have the right social network. Faced with this succession of small and large obstacles, inequalities in access and opportunities accumulate and the processes of exclusion continue from generation to generation.
Discrimination is part of a system in which different institutions operate (the school system, the health system, the labour market, social housing allocation bodies). The aim is to understand how these institutions operate, and then to identify the practices, rules and standards that have a discriminatory effect.
The aim is to interview the players working in the institutions to determine their degree of perception, in terms of discriminatory effect, of the impact of these standards, rules and practices. Are they aware of these effects? In-depth sociological work will be carried out to check that the players have not ultimately acted on the basis of a stereotype or negative prejudice towards these minority populations that they have 'validated' on the basis of information that they have deemed credible: political discourse and a certain way of processing information via social networks can lead to statistical discrimination. Young people from different backgrounds will also be asked about the practices, norms and rules that they themselves have identified as obstacles to their lives.
On the basis of the interviews, the aim is to draw up a typology of situations of 'exclusion/discrimination/reduction of opportunities/self-exclusion' experienced by young people from immigrant backgrounds, without the majority players fully perceiving the discriminatory aspect.
During the first year of the project, the teams worked on 3 tasks in WP1.
1/ Reports were produced on city policies to combat discrimination. The specific features of the labour market, the education system, health and access to housing were described. The different waves of migration since the Second World War were identified (post-colonial and more recent refugees) for each study area. The Roma, North African, sub-Saharan, West Indian, Syrian and Chinese populations were the subject of a more specific study. In order to compare the work carried out in the different study areas and to identify highlights and regularities, the WP1 leader (M Maussen, University of Amsterdam) proposed a common framework for the presentation of the reports. A comparative summary report was also produced (D1.2).
2/ Sébatien Platon (University of Bordeaux), led a team of legal experts who carried out research in the 4 fields (Bordeaux; Bucharest, Lausanne; Barcelona) but also in Canada and the Netherlands. The aim was to determine how the different legislations dealt with the issue of systemic discrimination and to compare these approaches with Canadian and Dutch legislation. The lawyers' work will be presented to the teams at the European Commission meeting.
3/ The questionnaires for the surveys aimed at students and young people living in the study cities were drawn up and the surveys carried out. The database for the two types of survey was the subject of deliverable 5.1. For each city and each survey (university / city), the deliverable includes the database in csv format, the questionnaires in the different languages (French, English, Romanian, Catalan, Spanish and Ukrainian) and the metadata file.
This first year also enabled WP4 to put in place various deliverables: the Data Management Plan (DMP) and the Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation of Results Plan (CDEP). As part of the communication process, the project logo was created, as well as the website (https://undeterred.hypotheses.org/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)) and social networks (Facebook and instagram). A YouTube channel has also been created. It has been used to post videos about KO as well as interviews with the leads.
Two communication events were held in November 2023. A conference-debate, organised in Bordeaux after the showing of a film (1er de corvée), in the presence of the directors and the protagonist. The film was about the migration journey of a young Malian seeking a residence permit. A debate with Wikipedia France representatives on the place of women and people from diverse backgrounds in the bibliographic references on Wikipedia pages.
At WP6 level, an ethics advisor has been appointed. She supervised the entire quantitative / qualitative survey process.
1/ Reports were produced on city policies to combat discrimination. The specific features of the labour market, the education system, health and access to housing were described. The different waves of migration since the Second World War were identified (post-colonial and more recent refugees) for each study area. The Roma, North African, sub-Saharan, West Indian, Syrian and Chinese populations were the subject of a more specific study. In order to compare the work carried out in the different study areas and to identify highlights and regularities, the WP1 leader (M Maussen, University of Amsterdam) proposed a common framework for the presentation of the reports. A comparative summary report was also produced (D1.2).
2/ Sébatien Platon (University of Bordeaux), led a team of legal experts who carried out research in the 4 fields (Bordeaux; Bucharest, Lausanne; Barcelona) but also in Canada and the Netherlands. The aim was to determine how the different legislations dealt with the issue of systemic discrimination and to compare these approaches with Canadian and Dutch legislation. The lawyers' work will be presented to the teams at the European Commission meeting.
3/ The questionnaires for the surveys aimed at students and young people living in the study cities were drawn up and the surveys carried out. The database for the two types of survey was the subject of deliverable 5.1. For each city and each survey (university / city), the deliverable includes the database in csv format, the questionnaires in the different languages (French, English, Romanian, Catalan, Spanish and Ukrainian) and the metadata file.
This first year also enabled WP4 to put in place various deliverables: the Data Management Plan (DMP) and the Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation of Results Plan (CDEP). As part of the communication process, the project logo was created, as well as the website (https://undeterred.hypotheses.org/(se abrirá en una nueva ventana)) and social networks (Facebook and instagram). A YouTube channel has also been created. It has been used to post videos about KO as well as interviews with the leads.
Two communication events were held in November 2023. A conference-debate, organised in Bordeaux after the showing of a film (1er de corvée), in the presence of the directors and the protagonist. The film was about the migration journey of a young Malian seeking a residence permit. A debate with Wikipedia France representatives on the place of women and people from diverse backgrounds in the bibliographic references on Wikipedia pages.
At WP6 level, an ethics advisor has been appointed. She supervised the entire quantitative / qualitative survey process.
The first year achieved two results
R1 - A comparative analysis of anti-discrimination policies in the 4 fields and 4 areas. This is coupled with an analysis of the legal arsenal in the fight against discrimination in these same areas in comparison with the Canadian arsenal. The latter will enable us to propose legal recommendations for achieving systemic equality.
R2 - A database for describing vulnerability profiles based not on criteria for perceiving discrimination but on the notion of "experience of unequal treatment".
These two results will make it possible to continue the research by feeding into the design of methodological survey tools in WP2 in connection with an Undeterred definition of systemic discrimination. By specifying in a comparative way the local contexts of socio-ethnic segregation and the profiles of vulnerability, they will provide the political decision-makers of the cities and universities surveyed with a diagnosis of the target public that will be particularly useful for pursuing their institutional commitment in phase 2 (qualitative survey) and phase 3 (experimentation) of the project.
R1 - A comparative analysis of anti-discrimination policies in the 4 fields and 4 areas. This is coupled with an analysis of the legal arsenal in the fight against discrimination in these same areas in comparison with the Canadian arsenal. The latter will enable us to propose legal recommendations for achieving systemic equality.
R2 - A database for describing vulnerability profiles based not on criteria for perceiving discrimination but on the notion of "experience of unequal treatment".
These two results will make it possible to continue the research by feeding into the design of methodological survey tools in WP2 in connection with an Undeterred definition of systemic discrimination. By specifying in a comparative way the local contexts of socio-ethnic segregation and the profiles of vulnerability, they will provide the political decision-makers of the cities and universities surveyed with a diagnosis of the target public that will be particularly useful for pursuing their institutional commitment in phase 2 (qualitative survey) and phase 3 (experimentation) of the project.