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The FoDiRa joint project systematically investigates key areas in which racist prejudices can arise, reproduce or reinforce themselves in everyday life. In particular, research is being conducted into the most relevant areas of life: education, work, housing and health. The fields of (social) media, sport and the internet are also being investigated. The focus is on the further development and use of innovative quantitative research methods to investigate discrimination and racism. These will be incorporated into the National Discrimination and Racism Monitor (NaDiRa). Innovative data, such as process-generated data or data obtained through web scraping, will be used in six projects. Three projects are developing semi-automated text analysis methods for use in racism research. Four projects use experimental methods and three projects use geodata or regional/local variation for causal research.
FoDiRa-Projects
More than 35 researchers at six locations of the DeZIM research community are involved in the 10 projects of the research network.
- Project 1: Racism in the healthcare sector
- Project 2: Racist discrimination in schools
- Project 3: Racism in sport - deepening and supplementing the stacking phenomenon
- Project 4: Seeing your religion
- Project 5: The perception of hiring discrimination in Germany
- Project 6: Discrimination experiences during the arrival process
- Project 7: Regionalization of racist and discriminatory discourses on the social web
- Project 8: Effects of media on racial assaults and their impact on local labor markets and regional migration
- Project 9: "(Not) welcome to digital Germany"? Causes and mechanisms of cyber-discrimination
- Project 10: Implicit and explicit racism in news media and social media: extent and impact
Spokespersons
FoDiRa at a glance
- Project funding: Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
- Duration: April 2022 to August 2024
- Scientific coordination: Dr. Alexandra Graevskaia (InZentIM)
- Administration: Dorothee Helsper (InZentIM)
- Project advisory board: Dr. Merih Ateş, Prof. Dr. Katrin Auspurg, Prof. Dr. Hajo Boomgaarden, Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Lewicki, Prof. Dr. Gert Pickel, Dr. Deniz Yıldırım
- Jaschke, P., Kosyakova, Y., Auer, D., Hunkler, C., Salikutluk, Z., Sprengholz, M. (2025). Immigrants’ recruitment chances in the German labor market: Evidence from large-scale survey experiments. IAB-Forschungsbericht, 6/2025, https://doi.org/10.48720/IAB.FB.2506
- Jaschke, P., Sprengholz, M., Auer, D., Hunkler, C., Kosyakova, Y., Salikutluk, Z. (2025). Seeing Your Religion: Diskriminierung und Rassismus gegenüber Muslim*innen auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. BIM News, 8, https://doi.org/10.18452/33069
- Müller, P., Freudenthaler, R., Ludwig, K., Chan, C., Wessler, H. (2025). Gruppenstigmatisierung in Nachrichtenmedien und wie sie überwunden werden kann. BIM News. , 7, https://doi.org/10.18452/33070
- Tsolak, Dorian, Stefan Knauff, and Simon Kühne. 2025. regionalization of racist and discriminatory discourses on the social web. BIM News, 6. https://doi.org/10.18452/31676.
- Kronenbitter, Lara, Marjorie Berns, Tina Nobis, and Julia Becker. 2025. racism in sport - deepening and supplementing the racist-stacking phenomenon. BIM News, 5, https://doi.org/10.18452/31672.
- Harms, Sophie, and Aileen Edele. 2025: What impact does racial discrimination have on the educational outcomes of migrant students in Germany? BIM News, 4, https://doi.org/10.18452/31210.
- Bredtmann, Julia, Christian Hunkler, Sebastian Otten, and Christina Vonnahme. 2024. discrimination at schools in Germany. BIM News, 3. https://doi.org/10.18452/31209.
- Kleinewiese, Julia. 2022. "Ethnic Discrimination in Neighborhood Ingroup-Outgroup Encounters: Reducing Threat-Perception and Increasing Fairness as Possible Solutions". Frontiers in Human Dynamics 4: 1038252. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2022.1038252.
- Kleinewiese, Julia and Jan Dillhöfer. 2023. "Who is discriminated against on social media and on what grounds? Discrimination on Facebook, Instagram and Reddit". MZES Focus 3(1): 1-6. https://doi.org/10.25521/mzesfokus.2023.261.
- Knauff, Stefan, Simon Kühne and Dorian Tsolak. 2024. "Everyday racism in social media: Regional differences in racism and stereotyping on Twitter". In: Polat, Ayça and Abigail M. Joseph-Magwood (eds.), Alltagsrassismus - Herausforderung für die Praxis sozialer und pädagogischer Arbeit. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer: 136-148.
- Kosyakova, Yuliya, Zerrin Salikutluk, and Jörg Hartmann. 2023. "Gender Employment Gap at Arrival and Its Dynamics: The Case of Refugees in Germany". Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 87: 100842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100842.
- Kosyakova, Yuliya, and Zerrin Salikutluk. 2023. "Gender Gap Dynamics among Refugees and Recent Immigrants: Different Start, Similar Patterns?" IAB Discussion Paper 11/2023, 2023. https://doi.org/10.48720/IAB.DP.2311. Also published as BIM Working Paper #1. https://doi.org/10.18452/27241.
- Ludwig, Katharina, Philipp Müller, Rainer Freudenthaler, Chung-Hong Chan, and Hartmut Wessler. 2023. "Implicit and explicit stigmatization of ethnic-read groups in the German media public sphere in 2022". MZES Focus 3(2). https://doi.org/10.25521/mzesfokus.2023.275.
- Ludwig, Katharina, Chung-hong Chan, Rainer Freudenthaler, Philipp Müller and Hartmut Wessler. 2024. differential racism in news reporting: An automated content analysis of explicit and implicit stigmatization of ethnic and religious groups in journalistic discourse. In: Christian Nuernbergk, Jörg Haßler, Jonas Schützeneder, and Nina F. Schumacher (eds.), Political Journalism: Constellations - Patterns - Dynamics. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
- Müller, Philipp, Chung-hong Chan, Katharina Ludwig, Rainer Freudenthaler and Hartmut Wessler. 2023. "Differential Racism in the News: Using Semi-Supervised Machine Learning to Distinguish Explicit and Implicit Stigmatization of Ethnic and Religious Groups in Journalistic Discourse". Political Communication 40, no. 4: 396-414. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2023.2193146.
- Müller, Philipp, Rainer Freudenthaler, Katharina Ludwig, and Chung-hong Chan (under review). An Experimental Survey Approach for the SemanticValidation of Word Embedding Biases. Communication Methods and Measures.
- Nguyen, H. Long, Dorian Tsolak, Anna Karmann, Stefan Knauff and Simon Kühne. 2022. "Efficient and Reliable Geocoding of German Twitter Data to Enable Spatial Data Linkage to Official Statistics and Other Data Sources". Frontiers in Sociology 7: 910111. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2022.910111.
- Nobis, Tina, Lara Kronenbitter, Julia. Becker, and Ilse Hartmann-Tews (under review). "Racism in Sport in Germany - What do we (not) know?" Preprint.
Contact
Dr. Christian Hunkler Research Associate at the BIM & Scientific Spokesperson of the Research Network Discrimination and Racism (FoDiRa)