the application process should be anonymous, say the Federal government and the trade unions. But the deprivation begins long before that.

don't know who wrote the application: Is the auto fair? Photo: imago

Actually it could be yeah no matter who one is and how one is, if you are applying for a Job. But it is not in this country. So, what would happen if applications would be in the future, anonymous? So if you were spotted without the indication of Name, age, gender, place of birth and a photo? The Federal anti-discrimination Agency (ADS) and the German trade Union Federation (DGB) stated, "discrimination at the first step in the application process" could be minimized in this way. Because application procedures were not everywhere free of discrimination.

Already in 2010 had launched the ADS in a pilot project at that time, five companies involved. These refused in the first application step on certain information in order to draw the attention to the qualifications of applicants*internal. The feedback, as it was then, had been positive.

In the USA, Canada or Belgium are anonymised applications already the Norm. And German companies, to keep something to yourself, make the also so. In 2006, the Initiative was called the "Charter of diversity" and is now been used by over 2,000 companies signed up, including Bosch, Siemens, Bayer and Adidas. Really all this did nothing. Anonymity is the Only thing that helps?

There is not, for decades, countless reports from people who are not invited to interview because the employer*Name and appearance of the applicant*fit inside. "Please don't be Arabs" had sent a Berlin-based architecture office recently to an applicant of Egyptian origin. Accidentally, as you claim.

This discrimination by name is not only limited to the labour market. Example apartment search: Also there's a similar pattern. Applicants with non-potato German names are not only invited to visit. The taz reported on several occasions about such cases. If the names and images would not be so known: Problem solved. Or don't you?

When you resume the white academics children

For example, when it comes to which secondary school children are to be sent. If you get no recommendation for high school spoken – even though they are qualified. "You can't do that" – this sentence got a lot of people with migration biographies in their school career to hear. He is a rebuff, a non-received ticket to the world of the Privileged.

It is so: In Germany you wish for aspiring, well-integrated Migrant children should have the same opportunities as their German classmates*on the inside. Well, but you have to look at their biographies as an asset for this company and not as a deficit.

Who made anonymous job application procedures, tried a missed opportunity at the end to compensate. When you resume the white academics, mostly children, and will not repent, to remove the Name and photo of the candidates. The biographies of the people remain privileged they are still.

the approach of The anti-discrimination body may be in this or that enterprise. But he prevents migrant biographies can be seen as an advantage. And it carries with it the danger of an Illusion. The Illusion of formal equality of treatment. A measure that employers are unable to hide, because it's all quite anonymous. If, in the end, however, only white-German men have a Job to get well. And to the racist structures that no one has shaken.