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Ethnic, racial, and religious minorities experience discrimination and prejudice across multiple life domains, which can accumulate over the life course. This ongoing exposure contributes to the persistence of inequalities across generations.

EqualStrength investigates cumulative and structural forms of discrimination, outgroup prejudice, and hate crimes affecting ethnic, racial, and religious minorities. The project takes a cross-setting and intersectional perspective and uses a combination of methods, including field experiments, population-level survey data, meso-level policy analysis, and targeted data collection to capture the perspectives of minority groups.

The project focuses on five areas. First, it examines structural and cumulative forms of ethnic and racial discrimination in Europe, with particular attention to Muslim, Roma, and Black minorities. Second, it analyzes how prejudice operates across different life domains, including anti-Muslim, anti-Black, and anti-Roma attitudes. Third, it studies policy and institutional factors that contribute to structural discrimination and prejudice. Fourth, it documents lived experiences of discrimination and the coping strategies individuals use in everyday life. Finally, it explores how race, ethnicity, and religion intersect with other dimensions of inequality, such as gender, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic position.