Dimensions of Inequality: Ethnicity Flashcards
(7 cards)
What did Culley and Dyson (1993) argue within ‘Race, Inequality and Health’?
Institutional racism, the NHS discriminated against non-white ethnic groups, resulting in a racial disadvantage. The way health services are organised is based on indigenous British culture and focused on the needs of the majority white population, rather than ethnic groups. Therefore, the NHS fails to provide information in an appropriate language.
What did Palmer (2005) argue within ‘Monitoring poverty and social exclusion’?
Material approach-people were more likely to suffer chronic illness and disability than people who owned their own homes. 70% of ethnic minority groups live in poverty in the UK, in the country’s 88 most economically and socially deprived areas 30% of Bangladeshis and 22% of Pakistanis live in accommodation that is officially classed as damp and overcrowded, compared to 2% of the white population.
What did Alcock (2006) find within ‘Understanding Poverty’?
Poor, damp housing often leads to poor health in ethnic minority children. This leads to time off school and fewer qualifications leading to low paid jobs, unemployment and consequently poverty in adulthood.
What did Karlsen and Nazroo (2004) find within ‘Fear of racism and health’?
The experience of living in a racist society can cause stress, fear and anxiety, which has additional negative affect on the health of minority ethnic groups. Found those who reported racial harassment and violence and who perceived employer discrimination were most likely to report their health as only fair or poor.
What did Van Dijk (1991) find within ‘Racism and the Press’?
Conducted content analysis of tens of thousands of news items across the world over several decades. News representations of Black people could be categorised into three stereotypical negative types of news, criminals, a threat or unimportant. A common news stereotype was the idea that minority ethnic groups are posing a threat to the majority White culture. In recent years, three groups seem to constitute the greatest threat in the UK, moral panics have been constructed around, immigrants, refugees and Muslims.
What did Cushion et al find within ‘Media representations of Black young men and boys’?
The media amplify and exaggerate news stories relating to Black ethnic groups. Monitored a range of daily and Sunday newspapers for a period of 16 weeks over the period of 2008-9. Black young men and boys are regularly associated with negative news values, 7 in 10 stories of Black young men and boys were related to some form of crime, especially involving knives or gangs. The media often present Black crime as irrational and senseless or motivated by gang rivalries. Little attempt to provide context or discuss the structural or social factors that might contribute to motivations for crime.
What did Amelia et al (2007) find within ‘The British Media and Muslim Representations: The Ideology of Demonization’?
The media discussion around the issue of wearing the hijab and the veil is often depicted as a patriarchal and oppressive form of control that exemplifies the misogyny of Islam and symbolises the alleged subordinate position of Muslim women. Negative language used by journalists describe women as victims. The actual everyday problems or challenges that Muslim women face, and which are caused by their socio economic conditions or by racism, are generally ignored because journalists only want to see them in the context of repressive form of Islam.
