Not In My Kitchen? Ethnic Discrimination and Discrimination Intentions in Shared Housing among University Students in Germany

Abstract

This article looks into the scope and causes of both ethnic discrimination intentions and discriminatory behaviour in the sphere of close private interactions. In practice, German students' willingness to move into flats which would be shared with a Turkish student is analysed by conducting a direct survey, a factorial survey and a field experiment. Results show that, independent of the method used, ethnic discrimination against Turks does not, overall, play a substantial role among university students looking for a place to stay. However, data from the factorial survey and from the field experiment reveal that ethnic discrimination does occur in specific scenarios: while male applicants, in particular, prefer places inhabited by females, this is only the case if the females are German. In sum, our analyses demonstrate that the gender dimension needs to be taken into account when investigating discrimination intentions and ethnic discrimination in the field of close private interactions.

Who can ride along? Discrimination in a German carpooling market

“…However, dislike intersects with gender as previous researchers have argued (e.g., Diehl et al, 2013). Frequently, research demonstrates that women of Turkish origin are more likely to be discriminated against compared with women of German origin (e.g., Weichselbaumer, 2016).…”

“…Why are women more often preferred in the carpooling market as drivers or passengers? Female names are associated with adjectives such as “productive” (Neilson & Ying, , p. 117), “tolerable” (Diehl et al, , p. 1689), “honest,” and “good” (Lieberson & Bell, , p. 539); male first names, however, are associated with the adjectives “strong,” “active,” and “intelligent” (Lieberson & Bell, , p. 539). Drivers might derive from the fact that women cause less accidents (Statistisches Bundesamt, ), that they are also more pleasant passengers, and that they generally display a different behaviour in cars.…”

“…In daily life, Turkish minorities in Germany are often more likely to face discrimination in the labour market (e.g., Kaas & Manger, 2012;Koopmans, Veit, & Yemane, 2018;Pietrantuono, 2016;Schneider, Yemane, & Weinmann, 2014;Weichselbaumer, 2016), in the rental market (e.g., Auspurg, Hinz, & Schmid, 2017;Horr, Hunkler, & Kroneberg, 2018;Lütkenhöner, 2014;Sawert, 2019), in welfare offices (Hemker & Rink, 2017), in online auctions (Przepiorka, 2011), in schools (Sprietsma, 2013), and in the dating market (e.g., Lütkenhöner, 2014). A few studies found only limited support for the discrimination of Turkish minorities in the market for student housing (Diehl, Andorfer, Khoudja, & Krause, 2013) and in public administration when requesting information on childcare and mobile homes (Grohs, Adam, & Knill, 2016). They share a high level of discrimination with Arab minorities in the Western hemisphere (e.g., Blommaert, Coenders, & van Tubergen, 2014;Gaddis & Ghoshal, 2015;Potârcă & Mills, 2015).…”

Ethnic and gender discrimination in the rental housing market: Evidence from a meta-analysis of correspondence tests, 2006–2017

“…Indeed, we chose this method as it is the most commonly used over the past few years, targeting countries with similar development level, lifestyle standards, same type of democratic governance and close market economy. Excluding correspondence tests in the shared housing (e.g Carlsson, Eriksson, 2015, Diehl and Al., 2013 makes sense to us given that it would require to take into account the decision of the landlord to share his home or not, which is too different from the concept of the standard tenancy.…”

Living together in student accommodation: performances, boundaries and homemaking

“…; Diehl et al . ; Holton ). Previous work has reported on the [im]mobilities of students as they consider residing in university‐managed (Hubbard ; Smith and Hubbard ) or privately rented (Sage et al .…”