Ethnicity: Material Deprivation

• Material Deprivation

  Platt (2007) - Minority groups in the UK are more likely to live in higher levels of poverty and have much lower rates of employment than white British people.

  • Around 40 per cent of people from ethnic minorities are in income poverty, twice the rate for white British people (the majority).
  • The income poverty rate varies substantially between ethnic groups:
  • Bangladeshi - 65%
  • Pakistani 55%
  • black Africans - 45%
  • black Caribbean - 30%
  • Indian - 25%
  • White British - 20%
• Material Deprivation

  Gilborne and Mirza (2000)

  When we compare children from different ethnic groups who are in the same social class position, we still see differences in attainment.

  • Highest among all middle-class students = Asian Chinese• Lowest among all working-class students = White British (boys)