IT La ricerca, commissionata dall’ILO (International Labour Office) e finanziata dal Ministero del Welfare, rientrava in un più ampio progetto comparato teso a verificare l’esistenza e la frequenza di comportamenti discriminatori nei confronti dei lavoratori immigrati, attraverso il ‘metodo Bovenkerk’ (una coppia di attori autoctoni e una appartenente alle minoranze immigrate rispondono agli stessi annunci di lavoro). La ricerca è stata condotta anche in Belgio, Danimarca, Germania, Olanda, Spagna, Francia. FIERI si è occupata del caso italiano. Il lavoro si è svolto in tre città italiane (Torino, Roma, Napoli) e si è concluso nel settembre 2003. Il rapporto finale è stato presentato insieme all’ILO nell’aprile 2004 a Roma e nel novembre 2004 a Torino, e pubblicato all’interno degli ‘International Migration Papers’ dall’ILO di Ginevra (La discriminazione dei lavoratori immigrati nel mercato del lavoro in Italia, rapporto di ricerca curato da E. Allasino, E. Reyneri, A. Venturini, G. Zincone, International Migration Papers, Ginevra, Employment Department, International Labour Office, 2004).

EN Research commissioned and financed by the International Labour Office (ILO) on the discrimination of immigrants in personnel selection processes. The study aimed at establishing whether foreign workers are subject to discrimination in accessing the Italian labour market in three sample cities: Turin, Rome and Naples. To measure the levels of discrimination, practice tests were used, based on the standardised ILO Bovenkerk methodology and carried out by couples of actors posing as job seekers whose characteristics are matched except for nationality. The research included an updated survey, based on the available data, on the trends in the employment of foreign workers, on the characteristics of such employment, and on the safety of the jobs held by migrant workers. The project identified indicators, dimensions and causes of discrimination, including indirect and institutional ones, with the purpose of focussing the attention of the media and of the policy makers on an issue that is severely overlooked in Italy. The research was co-ordinated by Prof. Enrico Allasino, Prof. Emilio Reyneri, Prof. Alessandra Venturini, Prof. Giovanna Zincone (January 2003-July 2003). The research report produced was presented in Rome on the 6^th April 2004 and in Turin on the 12^th of November 2004.