Publication type
Report
Series
MiSoC Explainers
Authors
Publication date
December 15, 2018
Summary:
Recently-conducted research, using nationally representative data on ethnic minorities in the UK, has demonstrated a high prevalence of ethnic and racial harassment and a strong association between experiencing ethnic and racial harassment and mental health. The research found that ethnic and racial harassment is severely underreported in police statistics: around 10 per cent of ethnic minority people reported experiencing ethnic and racial harassment in the past year. Further, almost twice as many ethnic minority people felt unsafe or avoided public places due to their religion, ethnicity, race or nationality. Experiencing ethnic and racial harassment, or fearing it, was associated with poorer mental health, an association larger than the difference in mental health between the employed and unemployed.
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Links
- https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/projects/health-and-harassment/Racial-harassment-explainer.pdf
- https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/projects/health-and-harassment/Racial-harassment-explainer.pdf
- https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/misoc/research/ethnicity-and-migration/explainers
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