ethnic differences in achievement - material deprivation

Question 1

Palmer

How does material deprivation impact ethnic minorities?

Answer 1

Ethnic minorities are almost twice as likely to be unemployed compared with whites

Ethnic minority households are around three times more likely to be homeless

Question 2

economically depressed

Why are ethnic minorites at a greater risk of material deprivation?

Answer 2

Many live in economically depressed areas with high unemployment and low wage rates

A lack of language skills, and foreign qualifications not recognised by UK employers (but this affects a minority, typically refugees)

Question 3

Rex, racial discrimination, social exclusion, poverty

How does racism impact ethnic minorities in wider society?

Answer 3

shows how racial discrimination leads to social exclusion and that this worsens poverty for ethnic minorities e.g. in housing, ethnic minorities are more likely to be forced into substandard housing than white people of the same class