Settings & experiences

A central element of the monitor is the implementation of a longitudinal population survey (NaDiRa.panel), which makes it possible to measure important characteristics and attitudes related to the causes, various manifestations or consequences of racism at the individual level. The focus here is on experiences of racism by particularly vulnerable groups, but also on the willingness to or resistance to anti-racist mobilization in society. In order to find answers to the question of how structural racism is linked to social inequalities, the NaDiRa.panel will also collect indicators from various areas that are central to social participation, such as education and development, family, work, housing, health, politics, pensions and care, on an annual basis. In this way, NaDiRa can use monitoring to make medium and long-term statements about the areas in which racial inequalities are particularly pronounced, how they change over time and what influence political reforms have at a structural level.

The NaDiRa.panel is not the only way to measure attitudes and experiences of racism. The Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) project of Black, African and Afro-diasporic people in Germany also collects quantitative data on the reality of life for members of the aforementioned group, thereby supplementing the NaDiRa.panel. Experiments are used to collect data on socio-psychological principles. The project Perceived prototypicality of different groups in German society uses the example of anti-Muslim and anti-Black racism to examine the tendency of people to accept characteristics, values, ideologies and behaviors of their own group as a generally valid social standard and the perspective of those affected by racism.Mental representations of racial inequality in Germany are recorded on the basis of reaction times, spontaneous decisions or memory performance in online surveys via the project's own platform MIND.set . Attitudes and experiences are also researched qualitatively in NaDiRa. The project Inter-migrant dynamics and cumulative experiences of racism uses the example of people of Turkish origin in Germany to analyze the connection between historical lines of conflict, new areas of tension and institutional framework conditions by means of interviews and focus groups. From this, scales can then be developed for the quantitative surveys of the NaDiRa.panel.