Discrimination is highest in Austria

Muslims in Austria expertise Most of the discrimination is subjective Among European countries with dense Muslim populations.

This comes from one Study conducted by the European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) It was made in 2021-22 and was released on Thursday. According to this, 66% in Austria experienced discrimination within one year; The five-year average was 74 percent. This is the highest value among the 13 countries in the European Union.

In general, the participants spent time Sub-Saharan Africa At 80%, participants most often said they had experienced discrimination in some way in the past 12 months. Exodus of Muslims Syria and Türkiye In this regard, they were practically equal at 64 and 65 percent. Also in Germany, Denmark and Italy Sub-Saharan Africa witnessed more discrimination than others; in Belgium and France However, they were practically on a par with the inhabitants of North Africa, and in France even slightly below them.

Discrimination when seeking housing in the workplace

When it comes to experiences of discrimination when searching for housing, Austria led the way with a five-year average of 61 percent, as well as in the workplace (52 percent) and in contact with the health system (45 percent). The themes of migration background, religion and skin color dominated the causes of discrimination across Europe, with skin color being mentioned most frequently among people from sub-Saharan Africa and migration background among other groups. However, 52% of those surveyed cited two or more reasons for discrimination.

Across Europe, younger respondents tended to say they had experienced more discrimination than older ones. However, in Austria, the phenomenon of disparity by age group was barely evident and was generally high at around 65 percent. Descendants of immigrants report experiencing discrimination more often than first-generation immigrants.

Although the experience of discrimination among Muslims in Austria appears to be very high, it was, along with Italy, one of the countries where instances of discrimination were reported less frequently by those surveyed (3 percent). This is despite the fact that the percentage of knowledge about the existence of legal protection and human rights organizations that provide support in such cases was relatively high, reaching 32 percent.

The FRA study is a partial result of a broader survey of migrants and descendants of migrants from Africa and the non-European Eastern Mediterranean conducted in 2021-22.

This study of experiences of discrimination among Muslims assesses responses from around 9,600 people from 13 EU countries – Austria, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Belgium, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg and Greece. The groups surveyed came from North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, Syria, and Turkey; For Austria, answers from participants from Syria, Turkey and Sub-Saharan Africa were taken into account.

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