Equality
Discrimination Is Pushing French Muslim Professionals to Jobs Abroad
Highly skilled Muslim workers are leaving France for the UK, Canada, Dubai and the US.
People walk past graffiti reading ‘Stop Islamophobia’ in Paris, France.
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Natasa Jevtovic, 38, left Paris for London in 2020 suspecting she would get better job opportunities as a young Muslim woman there. Her bet paid off.
Since moving to London, the finance project manager has flourished. She’s been promoted multiple times and now earns twice as much as she did in Paris. She believes none of that would’ve happened if she’d stayed in France, where she said she often experienced Islamophobia while working at a leading French bank.