Nuno Veiga / Lusa
Ukrainian refugees
Eastern European immigrants discriminated against in job centers. Ukrainian refugees pushed into low wages.
Os employment centers are not giving equal opportunities to everyone, Germany.
A study commissioned by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency shows that immigrants who arrived from Eastern Europe are usually the target of discrimination. They face more obstacles than other candidates, both in accessing employment and in accessing social benefits.
People from Eastern Europe are often forced to take precarious jobs – not because of a lack of motivation, but because legal and political frameworks leave them no alternative.
which shares the document, highlights that the Job center employees have individual discretion; but there is also structural and institutional discrimination – against people from Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
“The issue of anti-Slavism has been neglected during a long time”, says Ferda Ataman, Independent Federal Commissioner for Combating Discrimination.
The notion deepens because the Racism doesn’t affect people with blonde hair and blue eyes.
The case of refugees from Ukraine – and Germany has already received around 1 million Ukrainians since it began.
There are Ukrainians to be “pushed” for low-wage jobs; priority is given to quick placement on the job market, rather than the professional qualifications of arriving Ukrainians. Translation: a Ukrainian graduate (or more qualified) works as a cleaner.
Between aces barriers in access to the job market, there are: the long and inefficient process of recognizing professional qualifications, or temporary residence status.
Who arrives from Bulgaria and from Romania, for example, they are the target of a stereotype, that of “poor migrants”; They are marginalized by society and soon associated with the gypsy community. More negative stereotypes, greater devaluation.
And generalizations such as ‘poor’, ‘uneducated’, ‘lazy’, ‘reluctant to work’ or ‘prone to crime’ arrive.
