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Does nationality, citizenship serve as a ground for discrimination in access to public goods and services, employment and/or deprivation of economic and social rights?

Code:
RED4
Key Area:
Anti-discrimination Legislation & Implementation
Strand(s):
Discrimination
24/11/2011 - 23:46
Short Answer

Yes.

Qualitative Info

According to the Act on the Implementation of Certain Provisions of the EU on Equal Treatment, discrimination in access to goods and services on the ground of nationality is prohibited. The Labour Code forbids to discriminate on the ground of nationality, e.g. in access to employment, promotion and trainings, recruitment and work conditions.

The cases of discrimination on the ground of nationality in access to public goods and services or employment have been reported. One of the examples refers to the refusal to obtain family benefits granted to single parents by a female refugee from Chechnya. There are also instances of discrimination of Roma people or African students in access to services (restaurants and night clubs), and unjustified unequal treatment of people of different nationality in employment, education or housing.

Groups affected/interested Migrants, Refugees, Roma & Travelers, Muslims, Ethnic minorities, Religious minorities, Linguistic minorities, Asylum seekers
Type (R/D) Anti-migrant/xenophobia, Afrophobia, Arabophobia, Anti-roma/zinghanophobia, Nationalism
Key socio-economic / Institutional Areas Anti-discrimination
External Url http://www.interwencjaprawna.pl/docs/ARE-610-dyskryminacja-praktyka.pdf; http://poznan.gazeta.pl/poznan/1,36001,9009732,Poznanscy_restauratorzy__Romow_nie_wpuszczamy.html
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