SOS Racisme Catalunya recently published an analysis report entitled INVisibles: The state of racism in Catalonia. Drawing on the data from the organisation’s Service of Attention and Denunciation, the report examines the overall situation in the autonomous community of Catalonia and shares a series of reflections. The overall aim of the report is to serve as a source of information for relevant stakeholders, such as organisations and individuals fighting racism through reporting, CSO initiatives and advocacy.

Among others, the analysis focuses on three important issues: structural and institutional racism; the impact of cybersecurity on people’s daily lives and the limits of the concept of “interculturality” in policy circles. First, the report looks at the different manifestations of structural and institutional racism in fields such as the judicial system. It underlines the fact that migrants and racialised individuals are more likely to suffer from discrimination when it comes to denouncing racist attitudes and incidents before the courts. Second, it concentrates on the impact of what it labels “mass surveillance”, shedding light on the use of data for purposes related to migration, especially in the field of what the authors call “border hypervigilance” and racial profiling. Finally, it addresses the limits of the concept of “interculturality” as used by Catalan public administrations. In this respect, interculturality is seen as a “subterfuge” to avoid talking about race and, more specifically, about institutional racism.

To complement this publication, a series of other outputs - such as infographics - have been created to better display the data collected by the Service of Attention and Denunciation.