Fatma, who works as a nursery school teacher in Berlin, said it begins first thing in the morning on her way to work.

"The other drivers give me a look," she said. She dresses in stylish clothing, and wears a headscarf. "The instructor in my nursery teacher training program once said to me that she thinks the headscarf is unhygienic."

Fatma said she graduated from her training course with "very good" grades, and yet it still wasn't easy for her to get a job. What's more, nursery school teachers are urgently needed in Berlin and throughout Germany. But she feels that the headscarf puts her at a disadvantage. "It really upsets me," she said.

Hanna also lives in Berlin. "I don't dare go into certain neighborhoods," she said. She's regularly targeted by "stupid comments," as she puts it, whenever she takes the subway with her kids — because of her children and her dark hair. "People say I should go back to my country."

"Experiences of discrimination do not happen randomly," said Aylin Mengi, who is co-author of the Racism Monitor, published by the German Center for Integration and........

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