European states resist even collecting data on racist violence

Evidence

This not only freezes in time and across space who the postcolonial must be and what is to be expected of him. It makes it close to impossible to prompt, promote, and produce transnational antiracist social movements drawing on wide support and with reachable goals. Jo Goodey reveals that, but perhaps for Britain, European countries continue more or less robustly to resist collecting data revealing the extent of racist violence. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 970

Categorization

• SHARE: Worth flagging to anyone studying EU data-policy: most European countries actively avoid collecting racist-violence statistics.