Racism is widespread in Germany. This is shown by the first national monitor commissioned by the federal government. Black people experience discrimination primarily in public – Muslims often experience discrimination in the authorities.
According to a large-scale survey in Germany, black people in particular experience racist discrimination. Like from the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor shows that more than every second black person (54 percent) in this country has experienced discrimination in public.
One in five Black women (19 percent) say they experience threats or harassment several times a year or more. For black men this is 18 percent. According to the information, the values for Asian and Muslim men and women are between twelve and 14 percent. Black people are also more likely to say that they are regularly met with fear, which the monitor interprets as subtle experiences of discrimination.
From the office to the doctor’s office
According to the survey, 41 percent of black men and 39 percent of Muslim men experienced racial discrimination in the police. For white men it is nine percent. Around a third of the black women surveyed made allegations of racism to the police. For white women it is five percent.
According to the survey, these groups also experienced racism in offices and authorities. Here it was mainly Muslims: every second Muslim person reported racist discrimination there. For Asian people it is 40 percent.
These groups also experienced racism or discrimination in health care. “Discrimination takes place in different places here. People who are racially marked, for example, are less likely to get appointments and their suffering is less heard,” said the director of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Frank Kalter.
Women often in Health sector discriminated against
According to the report, women there have more negative experiences than men: Overall, more than two thirds of Muslim (68 percent) and black women (67 percent) said they had been “treated more unfairly or worse” by doctors or medical staff. More than a third reported that they even experienced this regularly. 61 percent of the Asian women and non-racially marked women surveyed also experienced discrimination in the healthcare system.
The makers of the study define people who identify as black, Muslim or Asian as racist.
More than 21,000 people surveyed
The monitor is based on a study by scientists at the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM) from June to November 2022. According to the company’s own information, more than 21,000 people in Germany took part in the representative survey.
The report is intended to provide regular information on the causes, extent and consequences of discrimination and racism. The research is financed by the federal government, which spoke out in favor of this continuous investigation in the last legislative period to combat right-wing extremism.