The measurement of racial discrimination

The Policy Use of Statistics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5143554
AutoresPatrick Simon (0009-0004-2505-6411, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume57
Fascículo183
Páginas9-25
Data de publicação2005-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Social Science Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0020-8701.2005.00528.x
OpenAlexW1978329537
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas30
Referências citadas13

Most 'multicultural societies' in the world attempt to act against racial discrimination and some, admittedly less numerous, have adopted pro-active equality policies based on statistical monitoring. Intensive use of statistics is a requirement for action against indirect discrimination, a legal concept imported into European Union countries since 2000. However, design and collection of statistical data providing information on racial discrimination calls for the establishment of a technical apparatus that raises issues of political strategy and action methodology. Using the results of a comparative study of the statistics used in anti-discrimination policy in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Australia, this analysis compares the various categories and modes of collection by setting them in context in order to reveal the compromises made between the legal and political imperatives of the struggle against discrimination and the aim of identity recognition within the multicultural project

Action (physics) · Affirmative action · Context (archaeology) · Data collection · Economics · European union · Geography · Identity (music) · International trade · Multiculturalism · Political science · Politics · Racism · Social science · Sociology · Discrimination and Equality Law · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Public Administration