Clear evidence of the existence of structural discrimination comes from Sweden, where a governmental inquiry found structural discrimination in the areas of labour market, housing, politics, the legal system, education and the welfare system. The result of this inquiry is all the more noteworthy because not long after the inquiry Sweden fared best in a comprehensive survey that looked at the performance of 28 countries,
including all EU countries, in the area of immigrant integration. Given that even the group leader acknowledges having major problems in this area, there is reason to believe that structural discrimination is a major problem in the other countries too...
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Timo Makkonen: Equal in Law, Unequal in Fact
Thomas Huddleston
Policy Analyst, Migration Policy Group
Thomas Huddleston is a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Group, a European think-and-do-tank. He coordinates MPG’s research for European cooperation on national integration policies, including the second and third editions of the Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) (published in February 2011) and the third edition of the European Commission’s Handbook on Integration.
