Poverty, ethnicity, racism and family dynamics

Project description

Despite some improvements over time, evidence consistently highlights the heightened risk of poverty among Black African, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani ethnic groups in the UK. These goups face disadvantage across various measures, including food insecurity, material deprivation, and fuel poverty, with more severe impacts across most measures. Black African, Bangladeshi, and Pakistani are two to three times more likely to experience persistent deep poverty compared to White British background householdsm. These disparities remain even when accounting for a range of socio-economic characteristics - such as region of residence, gender, age, highest educational qualifications, employment status, self-reported health, presence of any longstanding health condition, marital status, and the number of children in the household and housing conditions.

CASE has been commissioned a review by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation to explore the relationship between ethnicity, racism, and family dynamics to better understand poverty disparities among ethnic groups in the UK. The review will illuminate how poverty outcomes of different ethnic groups are shaped by a complex interaction between household needs and resources, which themselves are shaped by both group-specific factors, such as migration history and culture, and broader structural influences, such as social networks, policy frameworks and local contexts.