Britain Divided? A Review of poverty and ethnicity
Between April 2005 and April 2006, Dr Lucinda Platt will be carrying out a comprehensive review of the literature on poverty and ethnicity for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The author of Parallel Lives? Poverty among Ethnic Minority Groups in Britain (2002) and Migration and Social Mobility: the life chances of Britain's minority ethnic communities , Lucinda already has considerable expertise in the area of ethnic minority poverty and disadvantage. This review will supersede that work by providing a systematic and comprehensive review of all extant research since 1991 in the area of poverty and ethnicity in the UK, and attempting to locate that within an appropriate explanatory and conceptual framework. The review will have three elements:
It will collate and systematically review all the literature on the extent of poverty and deprivation as experienced by different ethnic groups in the UK;
It will explore explanatory accounts for ethnic group differences and the extent of the evidence for different the role of different factors (e.g. education, geographical location, discrimination etc.);
It will locate the explanations and the evidence on poverty in a conceptual framework that takes into account meanings of ethnicity and different understandings of poverty; and, at the same time, it will use the evidence collected to reflect on the adequacy of current measures and definitions of poverty in describing poverty for particular ethnic groups and accounting for the differences between ethnic groups:
- Britain Divided Summary (PDF)
- Britain Divided review protocol (PDF)
- Britain Divided? Quality and Exclusion Criteria (PDF)
- Britain Divided? December update (PDF)
- Britain Divided? Assessing the Evidence April Seminar (PDF)
- Presentation and Summary of Review
- Discussion by Afsana Shukur
- List of references at 25th April