'Trainee unwelcome with headscarf'

According to research by the Knowledge Platform Integration and Society of the Verwey-Jonker Institute for internships in vocational education. Discrimination occurs mainly in small and medium-sized businesses in the retail (fashion industry), catering, administration and technology. There are far fewer complaints about the care and welfare sector.

A total of 120 people were interviewed, students, mentors from schools and employers. The researchers emphasize that it is an exploratory investigation and that a larger study is needed.

Gaining experience is an important and compulsory part of vocational education. Without the mandatory internship training can not be completed. Depending on their level, students should such placement itself arange.

When looking for an internship itself is already taken into account by school counselors and students with possible discrimination. To avoid problems in advance is already possible to avoid discrimination.

"Immigrant students are often placed in relation to the government or among ethnic entrepreneurs," says researcher Eva Convent of the Verwey-Jonker Institute in the NOS Radio 1 News. "So it seems, but that remains to be investigated, that they have another route or career."

Students also choose rather not for an internship at a company whose story is being discriminated against there. Moreover, placement agencies will not enter into conflict with training companies, because they are already not in stock and they do not want to lose such a company.

Risk assessment

Appearance plays an important role in the selection of trainees. "Girls who wear headscarves are less desirable for positions with many customer contacts, especially because commercial companies say a headscarf does not fit the image of the company," says Abbey. This is evident from the responses of different supervisors.

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