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SIXTH INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE

WORKSHOP 46: International comparative indicators on ethnic discrimination

Thursday, November 29, 2001
14:00 - 17:30


ORGANIZERS

Lars Østby
Senior Research Officer
Statistics Norway
P.O.B. 8131 Dep
N-0033 Oslo, Norway
Phone (+)47 22 21 09 47 95
Fax (+)47 22 21 09 49 88
E-mail: los@ssb.no

Eva Haagensen,
Head of Research,
Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development,Department of Migration,
P.O.B. 8112 Dep.
N-0032 Oslo, Norway
Phone (+)47 22 24 71 74
Fax (+)47 22 24 95 48
E-mail: eva.haagensen@krd.dep.no

 

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

There is a strong need to monitor the development of ethnic discrimination in and across countries. Countries report on ethnic discrimination to a number of international bodies. The measurement and monitoring of ethnic discrimination might not be fundamentally different from other areas. But the monitoring and indicators that are used today seem to be neither representative, nor give basis for describing trends, levels, and distributions. They also seem to lack a good riskpopulation definition.

Due to well-known reasons objective measures of discrimination are difficult to obtain. What is needed are indicators that are comparable enough to be the basis for international comparisons. The workshop will cover two sessions. For the first session examples and experience of discrimination monitoring on the part of NGOs, policymakers and researchers representing different countries will be made available 3 weeks before the conference. On the basis of this written material the first session will sum up and discuss the state of the art. The second session will discuss what are the most objective comparative indicators of ethnic discrimination and how to proceed in order to co-ordinate better the monitoring of ethnic discrimination between countries.

Presenters:
Mr. Peter Fleissner, the European Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC), Vienna (http://www.eumc.eu.int)
Mr. Ronald Craig, Centre for combatting ethnic discrimination (SMED), Oslo (http://www.smed.no)
Mr. C. Triesscheiin, the Rotterdam Anti Discrimination Action Council (RADAR), E-mail: c.triesscheijn@radar.nl.
Researchers are also invited as discussants.


 

 

 

 

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