{"id":320189,"date":"2025-08-05T15:54:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/320189\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:54:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:54:17","slug":"to-what-extent-do-people-in-the-eu-feel-discriminated-against-in-their-daily-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/320189\/","title":{"rendered":"To what extent do people in the EU feel discriminated against in their daily lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, 5.9% of EU citizens aged 16 and older reported feeling discriminated against when looking for housing.<\/p>\n<p>This figure, however, rises to 10.1% among people at risk of poverty or social exclusion, according to the latest Eurostat figures.<\/p>\n<p>A similar trend is observed in interactions with public services or administrative offices, where 9.2% of citizens at risk of poverty reported experiencing discrimination, compared to only 4.2% of those not at risk of poverty or social exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Although self-perceived discrimination in public spaces and educational settings was less common overall, it was still more frequently reported among individuals at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Specifically, 5.7% of this group experienced discrimination in public spaces, while 4.4% felt discriminated against in educational environments.<\/p>\n<p>People with disabilities also state experiencing more discrimination than those without.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, in the EU, 8.3% of people with some kind of disability felt discriminated against when looking for housing. This is approximately 1.6 times higher than the figures for people with no disability.<\/p>\n<p>The gap in self-reported discrimination is even wider when contacting public services and administrative offices, with 9.3% of people with activity limitations reporting self-perceived discrimination, which is 2.3 times higher than the figure for those without such limitations (4.1%).<\/p>\n<p>Self-perceived discrimination among foreign-born people<\/p>\n<p>Non-native individuals tend to feel more discriminated against compared to native individuals. <\/p>\n<p>Last year, more than one in eight men born abroad reported experiencing discrimination while searching for housing, a rate that is 3.4 times higher than that of native-born men.  <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, 11.6% of immigrant women reported experiencing discrimination, which is 2.5 times higher than the rate for native-born women. <\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 7.9% of overseas women stated they faced discrimination in public spaces, compared to 3.1% of native-born women.<\/p>\n<p>The most significant disparities in self-reported discrimination in public spaces between native-born individuals and those born abroad were found in Poland, Portugal, Czechia, and Italy. <\/p>\n<p>In these countries, people born outside are five times more likely to feel discriminated against in public than those born locally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT In 2024, 5.9% of EU citizens aged 16 and older reported feeling discriminated against when looking for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[8522,2000,299,5187,1699,6333],"class_list":{"0":"post-320189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-discrimination","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-housing"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114976972053293836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}