In the projects Racism in medical training and Opportunities and hurdles of racism-related counseling work, interviews are conducted with people who are directly/potentially affected by racism (patients from the communities, medical students and doctors). In addition, interviews are conducted with experts on the topic of racism in healthcare and also with actors from the field of counseling affected persons. Barriers to accessing the field and recruiting participants often play a significant role here. Depending on the interview context and form, the statements are assigned to different levels of knowledge (interpretive knowledge, process knowledge, expert knowledge) and sometimes supplemented or mirrored with other methodological approaches to the field (e.g. document review and analysis).
In the project Institutional Racism in Daycare Centers, Berlin experts, managers and pedagogical specialists in early childhood education are asked about their experiences with the allocation of daycare places and participation in education in semi-structured or guideline-based interviews. The interviews are conducted both with educational professionals who are privileged by racism and with professionals who are themselves affected by racist discrimination. This is intended to reflect different perspectives on the effects of institutional racism in the daycare center. In this context, the position of the researchers must also be taken into account in order to ensure that the exchange with the interviewees is as open as possible. The interviews are supplemented by elements of participant observation (e.g. in everyday pedagogical situations, selection interviews for the allocation of daycare places, etc.) to ensure that indirect and non-obvious forms of racist discrimination are also recorded.
The data collected will be evaluated from an intersectional research perspective, based on grounded theory approaches, using an inductive-deductive analysis method. In addition to the mechanisms of institutional racism, other dimensions of discrimination (e.g. sexism, adultism, etc.) can also be taken into account.