EUROPP blog reports on our study about bureaucratic discrimination
The University of Exeter online blog "EUROPP: European Politics and Policy" has published a new article about the study "Differential discrimination against mobile EU citizens: experimental evidence from bureaucratic choice settings".
EU Citizenship guarantees the same rights to all mobile EU citizens who move to another member state. And yet, as a recent study by Christian Adam, Xavier Fernández-i-Marín, Oliver James, Anita Manatschal, Carolin Rapp and Eva Thomann indicates, some EU citizens are more likely than others to face discrimination when interacting with their host country’s public administration. Remarkably, they find that patterns of discrimination displayed by public administrators are very similar to patterns of discriminatory behaviour displayed by the general public. Continue reading