Attending and assisting the drafting of a Eurobarometer survey on discrimination

As part of ongoing doctoral research, this article contributes to the analysis of Eurobarometer surveys by situating their production within the context of bureaucratic struggles within the European Commission. The perspective is twofold: firstly epistemological, as the study explores the dynamics at play and the mechanisms through which Eurocrats legitimise themselves with the instrument; but also methodological. The article examines the conditions under which ethnographic data can be processed, particularly when the researcher is tasked with producing what she came to observe. The assigned position in the fieldwork, as well as the way the presence of a third-party researcher affects the making of European public policy are among the elements discussed.