Survey Projects

Designing and conducting surveys are one of our core projects.
We strongly believe that we need to first understand the status quo and the underlying reasons of anti-Asian racism in order to appropriately deal with its consequences.

Through our first survey in 2020, we have quantified and categorized the 4 types of violence commonly experienced by Asian diasporas, and how Asian residents perceive the existence of racism in their daily lives and their surroundings.

In 2024, we expanded our findings from the second Survey with mix-method studies. This study demonstrates specific forms of racialized and gendered experiences faced by Asian diaspora living in Europe, particularly Asian women and queer people. This study aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the forms and mechanisms of anti-Asian racism (AAR) in Europe through an intersectional lens and systemic nature of racism in everyday context.

February 2024:
AVE Survey II

Blue cover of a publication titled 'When Asian Voices ECHO' with the subtitle 'Anti-Asian Racism in Europe'.

Objectives:
1. To measure the level of racism Asians experience in their daily lives in Europe
2. To measure differences based on respondents’ identities (gender, ethnicity, nationality, etc.) and experience & perception of racism
3. To understand the impact of the pandemic on anti-Asian discrimination

A detailed infographic titled 'EXECUTIVE SUMMARY' about Asian Voices Echo: Anti-Asian Racism in Europe. It includes sections on research methodology, key findings on perceptions of racism, heterogeneity of experiences, impact of microaggressions, effects of COVID-19, policy implications, and contact information for Asian Voices Europe.
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If you wish to explore the full details and in-depth findings of AVE Survey II , please click the button below to access the complete report

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May 2020:
AVE Survey I

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in Europe, we began to see an increasing number of anti-Asian hate crimes and racist incidents in our surroundings, on social media, and the news.
(Check out just a few of the cases on our archive page)

In order to understand the extent of the problem, we conducted an online survey in March 2020. Here are our key findings:

An infographic about racist incidents experienced by Asians in Europe based on a survey of 168 respondents. It shows that 71% of respondents are female, 18% male, and 11% unindified. The most common cases are verbal attacks, accounting for 88%, followed by microaggressions at 55%, harassment at 23%, and physical attacks at 12%. The attackers are mostly male (51%), with 39% being unidentified, 9% female, and 1% both genders. The number of attackers varies, with 51% being unidentified, 21% more than four people, 15% one person, and 14% two to three people.