More than 1.2 million people (16.1%) have already suffered discrimination in Portugal, especially Roma (51.3%), the National Institute of Statistics (INE) said today.
Next come blacks (44.2%) or “mixed people” (40.4%), according to the results of the Study of Living Conditions, Origins and Trajectories of the Residential Population in Portugal (ICOT), presented by the INE as an unprecedented statistical project. in Portugal.
Discrimination also affected the unemployed (24.9%), young people (18.9%), educated people (18.3%) and women (17.5%), according to categories established by the INE.
“More than 4.9 million people (65.1%) believe that discrimination exists in Portugal, and 2.7 million (35.9%) have witnessed similar situations,” INE reports.
According to the same source, ethnic group, skin color, sexual orientation and area of origin represent the “most important factors” in perceived and observed discrimination.
The survey began in January with the aim of covering more than 35,000 homes and looking at, among other things, the ethnic and racial background of people who have lived in Portugal for at least 12 months, and comes after the organization decided not to include a question on the 2021 census. this issue, as expected by the majority of members of the working group created in 2019 by the government to assess the issue.
According to the results of the work, people aged 18 to 74 years identified themselves by origin and ethnicity as follows: 6.4 million – white; 169.2 thousand with a black group; 56.6 thousand with the Asian group; 47.5 thousand – Roma ethnic group; and 262.3 thousand – with a group of mixed origin or affiliation.
“Populations that identify as Asian, mixed, black and gypsy have a younger age structure than populations that identify as white,” INE said.
In Portugal, 1.4 million people have an immigration path, of which 947.5 thousand are first-generation immigrants, the majority of whom are represented in the Algarve regions (31.0% and 24.2% respectively) and the Lisbon metropolitan region (29.2 % and 18.8% respectively). ).
“Populations that identify as Black, Asian, Mixed or from a mixed ethnic background have the highest proportion of immigration backgrounds (90.3%, 83.7% and 69.2% respectively),” it says.
The majority of first-generation immigrants (65.2%) have lived in Portugal for more than 10 years. Family and professional reasons “determine coming to Portugal.”
More than three quarters (76.3%) say they feel a strong or very strong sense of connection to Portugal. Just over half (53.5%) hold the same opinion regarding Europe.
“Populations with an immigration background and first-generation immigrants have a greater connection with Portugal than with the family’s country of origin or the country where they were born,” the statisticians emphasized.
More than 4.7 million people aged 18 to 74 were employed (62.4%), with a focus on ethnic groups of mixed origin or affiliation (67.9%), black (64.3%) and white ( 62.9%).
“More than two million people were forced to work while studying, and 1.7 million were forced to leave school earlier than they would have liked,” the authors found.
In addition to Portuguese, 486.4 thousand people spoke another language at home before the age of 15. “Currently, 661.7 thousand people speak Portuguese and another language at home.”
The languages of other European countries and the languages or dialects of Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP) are among the most widely spoken.
The population in the reference age range of the study lives mainly in the Northern Region (35.5%), followed by the Lisbon Metropolitan Region (27.3%) and the Central Region (21.2%).
“The geographical distribution of the population by ethnic group allows us to observe, however, a different picture of the distribution in the territory: while the population identifying with the white group follows the pattern observed in the total population, the population identifying with in the Lisbon agglomeration is predominantly concentrated in blacks (69.9%), mixed origin or affiliation (48.4%) and Asian (34.7%) groups,” the INE clarified.
About three-quarters of the population (74.3%) live predominantly in urban areas, “where the following ethnic groups are particularly prominent with above-average values: Black (91.7%), Mixed or Affiliated (88.7%) and Asian. (80.3%).”
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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