Minority Communities & Gambling Harms: Qualitative and Synthesis Report Lived Experience, Racism, Discrimination and Stigma
Published on 1 December, 2023.
This paper is part of a wider research programme focussing on Minority groups’ lived experience of gambling harms in Great Britain. The work focuses on Minority groups primarily due to GambleAware’s recognition that gambling harms need to be understood in the context of inequalities present in British society. Racism and discrimination impact the opportunities and affect the life experiences of people from Minority groups in complex ways. The processes of racialisation, discrimination and exclusion based on someone’s ethnic, religious or migration background are fundamental to understanding Minority groups’ experiences of gambling harms1. This research, therefore, focuses on ethnic minority groups, religious minority groups, people from asylum seeker and refugee backgrounds, as well as people for whom English is a second language. As is discussed in this paper, research has repeatedly demonstrated that individuals from these groups are at elevated risk of experiencing racism, discrimination or other forms of unfair treatment, and we consider these factors integral to understanding their experience of gambling and gambling harms. Though these groups are heterogeneous and diverse communities, elements of their experience relating to racism and discrimination in British society are likely to be common across groups.