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Minority ethnic Britons face ‘shocking’ job
discrimination
Haroon Siddique
Thu 17 Jan 2019 17.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 18 Jan 2019 00.50 GMT
A study by experts based at the Centre for Social
Investigation at Nuffield College, University of Oxford,
found applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds
had to send 80% more applications to get a positive
response from an employer than a white person of
British origin.
A linked study by the same researchers, comparing
their results with similar field experiments dating
back to 1969, found discrimination against black
Britons and those of south Asian origin – particularly
Pakistanis – unchanged over almost 50 years.
The research, part of a larger cross-national
project funded by the European Union and shared
exclusively with the Guardian before its official
launch, prompted concerns that race relations
legislation had failed.
It echoes findings published as part of the Guardian’s
Bias in Britain series that people from minority ethnic
backgrounds face discrimination when seeking a
room to rent. In a snapshot survey of online flatshare
ads the Guardian found that an applicant called
Muhammad was significantly less likely to receive a
positive response than an applicant called David.
Prof Anthony Heath, co-author and emeritus fellow
of Nuffield College, said: “The absence of any real
decline in discrimination against black British and
people of Pakistani background is a disturbing
finding, which calls into question the effectiveness
of previous policies. Ethnic inequality remains a
burning injustice and there needs to be a radical
rethink about how to tackle it.”
Dr Zubaida Haque, the deputy director of the race
equality thinktank Runnymede, described the findings as shocking. They demonstrated that “it’s
not just covert racism or unconscious bias that we
need to worry about; it’s overt and conscious racism,
where applicants are getting shortlisted on the basis
of their ethnicity and/or name”, she said.
“It’s clear that race relations legislation is not
sufficient to hold employers to account. There are
no real consequences for employers of racially
discriminating in subtle ways, but for BME* applicants
or employees it means higher unemployment, lower
wages, poorer conditions and less security in work
and life.”
<https://tinyurl.com/y9nohdte> Acesso em: 07.10.2019. Adaptado.
*BME – Black and Minority Ethnicity
Segundo o texto, estudos indicam que a discriminação está
presente tanto na busca por emprego, quanto
