Nonetheless, it noted that civil society groups have marked an increase in hate incidents since Ethnic profiling by the police appears to still be common practice despite being outlawed in , ECRI said.
In June, new Prime Minister Antti Rinne pledged to overturn the widely criticised sterilisation requirement. Published On 11 Sep Besides the EU survey, another study showed that the coronavirus death rate in Sweden was percent higher among people born outside the country. A study shows that in Finland views on immigration have become less tolerant in the past five years.
Segregation problems can be found all across Nordic territories. Iceland recently introduced a custom-designed car to carry out border surveillance, which has been used to disproportionately target Albanians and Romanians; such practices have been criticized as racial profiling.
In Sweden, segregated neighborhoods have long been considered a major problem, which has also become a tool for the right-wing to oppose immigration. Nationalist parties overall have been on the rise in Europe, and the Nordic countries are at a breaking point. If Nordic nations want to keep taking pride in their progressiveness and egalitarianism, definitive steps against racism must be taken now. Nordic countries have free and well-working education, but there is inequality embedded in the same system that has been admired worldwide.
Often, these same students are also advised downwards in student counseling. Women, in particular, are guided towards care working, even if they are planning on going to university. In the Nordic countries, university admissions work solely on grades, which leaves no room to account for different student contexts. This creates inequality, as it incorrectly assumes everyone to have the same background and opportunities to receive excellent grades. Going from school to the labor market, language skills is one particularly troubling factor.
Five thousand fake resumes were sent out from five different ethnic groups: Finnish, English, Russian, Iraqi, and Somali with the same qualifications and language proficiency. The research shows that a foreign-sounding name is a significant factor in job applications; local sounding names received callbacks multiple times more likely than foreign-sounding names. Moua recognizes that there are two levels of discrimination in the Finnish labor market: Horizontal and vertical discrimination.
In horizontal discrimination, a specific group gets stuck in a low paying field even when they often have much higher qualifications than the job actually requires. In vertical discrimination, a person that is discriminated against might be hired for a job, but career progress is unfairly challenging because of racially-motivated factors.
The job benefits, like salary and access to training by the employer, are lower, but despite that, the person that is discriminated against is reluctant to report their unfair treatment even if they experience clear racist harassment.
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