Report finds that 10% of people from ethnic minorities in Scotland have suffered recent racist physical attack
A new report from the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity and BEMIS Scotland finds that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing ethnic inequalities in Scotland.
The finds that one in four people from an ethnic minority experience unfair racist treatment in their job or education, and one in ten experienced recent unfair treatment in housing or from the police.
Ten percent of ethnic minorities in Scotland have suffered recent racist physical attack. Black and Chinese ethnic groups in Scotland have particularly high levels of reporting racist insult and unfair racist treatment from police.
More than one third of people from ethnic minorities in Scotland worried about racist harassment. The majority of people identifying as Black, Pakistani, Indian and Jewish in Scotland worried about racist harassment. Levels of worry about racism were higher in Scotland than in England and Wales for many ethnic groups.
As Scotland鈥檚 population becomes more ethnically diverse, it is even more urgent that inequalities between ethnic groups 鈥� which were also exposed and intensified by the Covid-19 pandemic 鈥� be understood and addressed.
The report is produced by CoDE working in collaboration with BEMIS, the national umbrella body supporting the development of the Ethnic Minorities Voluntary Sector in Scotland.
[T]his EVENS Report becomes a crucial framework that will be important to future researchers and to the archive of experiences of people during the pandemic period. We all must enhance collaboration and progress our serious efforts to ensure social, economic and cultural justice are the backbone of future race equality work: we must tackle poverty, employment, housing and health inequalities if we are to create an environment in which all of Scotland鈥檚 people can realise their potential.
The report is based on data from Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS), the largest and most comprehensive survey to document the lives of ethnic and religious minorities in Britain during the pandemic.
The collaboration is part of , an initiative which works with research and voluntary sector partners to explore how the EVENS dataset can be used in racial justice work beyond academia.
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The report is authored by Nissa Finney (University of St Andrews), Nigel de Noronha (University of Manchester) and BEMIS. We acknowledge funding from the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council via the CoDE grants 鈥楨xploring racial and ethnic inequality in a time of crisis鈥� (ES/V013475/1), 鈥楾he social, cultural and economic impacts of the pandemic on ethnic and racialised groups in the UK鈥� (ES/W000849/1) and Legacy Grant funding (ESW012340/1).