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.
