dw-data/african-migrants-experiences

Repository for the analysis, methodology and sources provided for the migrants of African descent experiences in the EU story 2025 # Experiences of migrants of African descent in the EU Story idea, interviews and writing: Chiponda Chimbelu Data analysis and visualisation: Ana Muñoz Padrós Editing: Gianna-Carina Grün, C Mwakideu ## Data sources The main data sources for this story have been the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), the German Federal Employment Agency (BA, for its initials in German), and a peer-reviewed research article published in Nature, the leading science journal. #### Prevalence and experiences of racist discrimination, harassment and violence in the EU Data on the prevalence and experiences of discrimination were mainly taken from the 'Being Black in the EU' report (FRA, 2024), particularly within the range of figures between 28 and 69. The report analyses the responses of over 6,700 people of African descent living in 13 EU countries, building on the results of the upcoming EU-MIDIS III survey (expected to be launched early 2026 at the time of writing), and it can be found in this link . The EU-MIDIS II survey (FRA, 2016) complemented the main source, see excel file with selected data The specific figures and details on the process, can be found in the jupyter notebook These sources also provided data on: - Awareness of equality bodies - Reporting of discriminatory events. #### Employment in Germany Data on employment and unemployment in Germany was taken from the analysis kindly provided by the BA in July 2025. The complete excel file is here. - Data on unemployment was extracted from the 'Arbeistlosenquote' sheet. - Data on employement by sectors and demographic groups was extracted from the 'Beschäftigte_Berufssegmente' sheet. More details on the analysis and the process are in the jupyter notebook #### Pay gap Data on immigrant-native pay gap in Germany was obtained from the peer-reviewed article published in science journal Nature in July 2025: Hermansen, A.S., Penner, A., Boza, I. et al. Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-payin …