As the portion of the foreign-born population continues to grow across the European Union, gaps in overall political participation between immigrants and natives persist. This is a cause for...Show moreAs the portion of the foreign-born population continues to grow across the European Union, gaps in overall political participation between immigrants and natives persist. This is a cause for concern to European democracies, specifically regarding their representativeness of the entirety of the population that constitutes them and that they are meant to serve. While scholars have focused on more conventional forms of political participation, this research aims to specifically focus on protests as a non-conventional form of political participation while taking both experienced and perceived discrimination as the main motivators and major determinants of this type of political behavior. Using data from the Survey on Minorities and Discrimination in EU conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in 2016, this paper argues that both the experience and perception of discrimination are positively related to participation in protest behaviors amongst citizens of immigrant origin. This paper uses a binary logistic regression with experienced and perceived discrimination as predictor variables, and participation in protest as the response variable, while controlling for six key factors: age, gender, income, generation of immigration, interest in politics, and education. Countries were also used as control variables to counter potential biases in the results from the clustering that often occurs with the use of survey data.Show less
The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between personal perceived discrimination, group perceived discrimination and perceived barriers with internalizing and externalizing problem...Show moreThe aim of this study was to examine the relationship between personal perceived discrimination, group perceived discrimination and perceived barriers with internalizing and externalizing problem behavior among Muslim adolescents in the Netherlands. The sample consisted of 62 respondents aged from 14 to 21. The results show a significant difference between the prevalence of personal perceived discrimination and group perceived discrimination. The respondents report more group perceived discrimination, as expected. Also a significant relationship between perceived barriers and externalizing problem behavior is found. Respondents that report more perceived barriers have scores that indicate more externalizing problem behavior. Explanations for the results are discussed as well as suggestions for future research and implications.Show less
