A recent study conducted in France revealed that these with a muslim first and last name applying for graduation programs are discriminated against against more than those with ethnically French names.
Researchers from the Observatory of Discrimination and Equality in Higher Education (ONDES) and Gustave-Eiffel University sent more over 1,800 emails in March 2021 to educational directors of 607 graduate programs from 19 universities to test his discrimination against people with disabilities and those with foreign origins, according to media.
the test was conducted by researchers with false names, for both with disabled and those without – used as test case – to graduate program directors.
Trustees the researchers contacted said they embrace diversity in their candidates and did not prioritize people who come from a European background, but researchers found Furthermore.
Those with a Muslim name, the study found were 12.3% less likely to receive a response to emails sent to each of their graduate programs. This rate was 33.3% in field of law, 21.1% in the fields of science, technology and health, and 7.3% in the fields of languageLiterature, art, human sciences and social Sciences.
The researchers interviewed the same educational directors anonymously three months after the end of the study on on behalf of of the Ministry of Higher Education “on the difficulties they have encountered in the process of recruit students”, then finding the double standard when it comes to directors’ desire to embrace diversity.
No discrimination was found for students who said they were physically disabled.
Rights of Muslims have been subject of intense debate over the past decade in France as the country struggled with violent extremist events like the Charlie Hebdo attacks of January 2015 which killed 12 peoplefollowed by the horrific Bataclan attacks in november the same year in who 130 people deceased in one night of coordinated violence. Professor Samuel Paty was beheaded in mid-October 2020 outside the college where he taught north of Paris. About two weeks later, three people dead in the hands of a man armed with a knife inside the Notre-Dame basilica in Pleasant, one of also decapitated.
All have been worn out by professed members of Daesh terrorist group.
Despite the separation of church and state being a founding principle of French democracy dating from the French Revolution, the government has a particular approach to son adherence to a secular ideology, and even a term for that: “secularism”. Hands a little-off perspective aims to strengthen true democratic principles of equality, tolerance and fairness while the state maintains a neutral position and does not recognize religious differences among citizens.
