The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) today released a report on discrimination against Muslims in the EU. The results for Muslim respondents indicate similarly high levels of discrimination and victimisation as for other minority groups surveyed. Many racist incidents are not reported to the police or to any other organisation. Knowledge of anti-discrimination…
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European countries that have offered to help the Obama administration close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba by resettling 60 o the 241 detainees in Europe detainees have begun raising questions about the security risks and requirements if they accept any of the prisoners. The concerns, and a deep suspicion of whether the American…
Swedish bank Skandiabanken has been reported to the Swedish Ombudsman against ethnic discrimination for discriminating against Arabic sounding names. Bank customer Ahmad Waizy made the report after trying to complete an international payment transaction on Skandiabanken’s website, but was unable to complete the payment due to the bank’s rejection of his first name. After Waizy…
Dr. Kastoryano is now director of research at Sciences Politique in Paris, having begun her tenure in 1988. Prior to this affiliation, she taught at Harvard University, and since 1988 has worked as a fellow at Princeton, at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and again at Harvard in 2003-2004. Since 2005, she has also acted as an invited professor at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her research interests today fall broadly to the political sociology of Europe, nationalisms and identity.
