Our research shows that COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting Black and Asian people, and racism is part of the explanation why.
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Rights-based pressure on China over its treatment of Uyghurs is necessary, but other nations could also present best practices for the ethical treatment of racialized minorities in their own countries.
The government has a legal duty not to exacerbate inequalities in its policies, but this is getting forgotten during the pandemic.
It’s the simple, everyday encounters and experiences – a friendly wave, a helping hand – that refugees say makes them feel part of the Australian community.
Improving health literacy and access to services could empower ethnic minorities to boost their immune systems.
The absence of ethnic diversity in politics and business distorts and undermines the lived reality of a multicultural democracy.
There’s no evidence COVID-19 death rates are related to the genetic differences used to racialise people.
Our research will look for how differences in people’s innate immune systems may affect COVID-19 survival rates.
Why shouting diversity just doesn’t cut it if the system is designed to keep people out.
Black and minority ethnic staff in universities are paid less than their white colleagues.
Kaduna State in Nigeria has been the scene of ethnic and religious violence for years and there seems to be no end in sight.
Strategies to support a diverse workforce can be beneficial – but may have unintended consequences.
In the US, non-whites have higher birth rates and make up the bulk of new immigrants. As white people lose their demographic majority, some will resist the accompanying political changes.
Theresa May is courting ethnic minority support for her Brexit deal with her rhetoric on EU nationals ‘jumping the queue’.
An association with Brexit and a desire to win back the white working class aren’t particularly appealing to minority voters.
When France won the world cup in 1998, the team was celebrated for its multiculturalism. What has happened since?
The UK’s black Caribbean community is traditionally more inclined towards Labour. They’re even less likely to switch now.
Racist behaviour in universities manifests itself in nuanced and covert ways.
If theatre, film and TV is to accurately reflect the world we live in, then the actors cast must reflect that diversity too.
Why do so many books by non-white authors find themselves in ‘global literature’?
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Research Fellow (Henry Jackson Society - Centre on Radicalisation & Terrorism), Royal Holloway, University of London
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Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
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Professor of Education and Social Justice, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Sociology, University of Bristol
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Lecturer, Political Science, Obafemi Awolowo University
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Academic Tutor and Clinical Psychologist, University of Sheffield
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Head of Department of Economics, Finance & Accounting, Brunel University of London
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol
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Professor of Health Research, University of Bradford
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Assistant Professor in British Politics, University of Nottingham
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer, Middlesex University
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Reader in French Theatre, University of St Andrews