Abstract

A field experiment on the discrimination of Roma migrants from Eastern Europe was conducted in two stations of the Paris metro to explore the behaviors that may communicate misrecognition in everyday encounters. An actress asked for help to randomly chosen passengers on a metro platform, wearing a glaringly Romani skirt in the treatment condition but an unconspicuous middle-class style in the control condition. In interaction with the actress wearing the Romani skirt, passengers were found to enact the so-called “visual dominance pattern”, and male passengers in particular were found to keep greater distances. Reverse discrimination also occurred as women kept shorter distances from the actress bearing the ethnic stigma. Last, passengers helped less the stigmatized actress, but only in one of the two metro stations where trials were conducted.

摘要

在巴黎地铁的两个车站进行了一项针对来自东欧的罗姆移民歧视的现场实验，以探讨在日常交往中可能传达误认的行为。一位女演员要求帮助在地铁站台上随机选择的乘客，在治疗情况下穿着显眼的罗曼尼裙，而在控制情况下穿着不起眼的中产阶级。在与穿着罗曼尼裙的女演员互动时，发现乘客制定了所谓的“视觉优势模式”，尤其是男性乘客保持了更大的距离。由于妇女与带有种族歧视的女演员之间的距离较短，因此也发生了反向歧视。最后，乘客对受污名的女演员的帮助较少，但仅在进行试验的两个地铁站之一中。