Survival over safety: non-reporting of criminalised violence by young migrants excluded from protection

Figures & data

Table 1. legal status of survey respondents.

Legal status:	Number of respondents (total 85):
Currently living with undocumented legal status	37
Pending asylum application	17
Temporary Study Law permit	14
Permanent residence	7
Temporary residence	5 (3 stated that residence was protection-based)
Did not respond	2
Temporary victim protection	1
Living with suspended deportation order for three years	1
Work permit (track change from asylum-track)	1

Table 2. Survey participants’ experiences of violence.

Experiences of violence	Number of respondents
Racist language or abuse	41
Physical violence	28
Robbed	11
Threatened	6
Weapons used against them	6
Forced or unwanted sexual contact	3
Propositions to go home with men	1
Know someone who has been in a fight, been beaten up, received threats, or been forced to do something they did not want to	37
Have witnessed others being subject to violence	40

Table 3. Survey respondents’ stated reasons for not contacting the police.

Reason for not contacting police	Number of respondents
Afraid of being deported	33
Would result in problems for me or someone else	24
Did not think that what happened was serious enough to report	12
Did not trust the police	11

Table 4. Other contact with police by survey respondents (not related to reporting a crime).

Police contact not related to reporting a crime	Number of respondents
Been stopped by police on the street	28
Police came to my home	11
Police took me to a detention centre	9