Racism Incident Reporting Centre
A community-based reporting tool to track incidents of racism
project 1907 has partnered with Vancouver Asian Film Festival on the Elimin8hate campaign, bringing our respective initiatives together to form one centralized racism reporting centre. The aim of this partnership is to build a more coordinated effort in understanding the impacts of rising anti-Asian racism.
The Elimin8hate reporting centre collects data on incidents of racism, hate and violence experienced by the Asian diaspora in Canada. In the aggregate, data will be used to develop strategies, design interventions, raise awareness, advocate for policies and improve outcomes for our communities.
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Updated Trends (Jun 2021)
2021 continues to see a rise in incidents of anti-Asian racism in Canada. In the first 5 months of 2021 alone, there were over 50% more incidents reported than in all of 2020.
Over 1,500+ incidents of anti-Asian racism have been reported to elimin8hate.org and covidracism.ca. Analysis confirms the following disturbing trends and patterns:
Canada continues to report a higher number of anti-Asian racism incidents per capita than the United States. The incidences reported per capita in Canada are double those reported in the United States.
BC continues to report the most incidents per capita of any North American province, state or territory. By city, Vancouver has the highest number of reported incidents per capita.
Women continue to be disproportionately impacted, reporting 2 out of 3 incidents.
Verbal abuse and harassment continue to be widespread, included in 67% of all reported incidents.
Assaults, including targeted coughing, spitting and physical attacks and violence, make up 1 in 4 incidents.
National Collaboration of Data Collection on Anti-Asian Racism (Sep 2020)
On the anniversary of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots, we join Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter, Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice and Vancouver Asian Film Festival to release the results of our national collaboration of data collection on anti-Asian racism.
Access all infographics, templates and social media toolkit here.
Over 600 incidents reported since onset of COVID-19
The national report combining the data from elimin8hate.org and covidracism.ca confirms the following disturbing trends and patterns:
Canada has a higher number of anti-Asian racism reports per Asian capita than the United States. BC has the most reported incidents per Asian capita of any sub-national region in North America, followed by California, New York and Ontario.
Women are impacted the most, reporting 60% of all incidents. In BC, women are even more disproportionately impacted, accounting for nearly 70% of all reported incidents.
Verbal abuse and harassment are widespread, occurring in 65% of all reported incidents. This includes racial slurs, threats and derogatory remarks.
Nearly 30% of reported incidents are assault, including targeted coughing, spitting and physical attacks and violence.
Emerging Trends (May 2020)
Between April 23 and May 18, we received 128 reports of racist incidents from 25 cities across the country. Below are the emerging trends and community calls to action.
Access all infographics, templates and social media toolkit here.
We acknowledge that all Black, Indigenous and People of Colour experience racism on a daily basis, and we stand in solidarity with all racialized groups. This initiative focuses on the experiences of people in the Asian diaspora, in response to growing anti-Asian sentiment resulting from COVID-19. Our deepest appreciation to the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON) and Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) in the USA for being leaders in this effort.
