Material Deprivation And Class Flashcards
What does material deprivation mean?
A lack of those physical necessities that are seen as essential/ normal for life in today’s society.
What did Palmer find about ethnic minorities facing material deprivation?
- 1/2 of all ethnic minorities live in low-income households as against 1/4 white children.
- EM nearly 2x as likely to be unemployed compared with whites.
- EM households are around 3x more likely to be homeless.
- almost 1/2 of Bangladeshi and Pakistani workers earned under £7 per hour compared with 1/4 of whites British workers.
What are EM workers more likely to be engaged in? And what are Bangladeshi/ Pakistani women more likely to be engaged in?
- Shift work.
- Low-paid home working.
What reasons might there be for why some EM may be at greater risk of material deprivation resulting in unemployment, low pay and overcrowding?
- Many live in economically depressed areas with high unemployment and low wage rates.
- Cultural factors can prevent women from working outside the home.
- Lack of language skills, foreign qualifications not being recognised by UK employers are more likely to affect recently arrived groups many of which are refugees.
- Asylum seekers may not be allowed to work.
- Racial discrimination in the labour market and housing market.
How are inequalities with EM reflected?
In the proportion of children from different ethnic groups who are eligible for FSM.
Example of how Indian and Chinese pupils who are materially deprived still doing better than
2011 - 86% Chinese girls receiving FSM achieved 5 or more higher grade GCSEs compared with only 65% of white girls who weren’t receiving FSM.
What did Modood find?
Children from low-income families generally did less well the effects of low income were much less for other ethnic groups than for white pupils.
What does Rex show?
How racial discrimination leads to social exclusion and how this worsens the poverty faced by ethnic minorities.
