The word ‘disadvantage’ is defined in the Cambridge Dictionary as ‘a condition or situation that causes problems, especially one that causes something or someone to be less successful than other things or people’. It is, therefore, implicitly, a relational term – if there is dis advantage, then there must also be advantage. On these terms, it would probably be fair to say that anyone can face disadvantage in their life regardless of their status or situation. And yet, partly in recognition that not everyone is equally impacted by the issues that society
In England, as in countries across the world, shrinking public funding, growing localism, and increased school autonomy make tackling the link between education, disadvantage and place more important than ever. Challenging current thinking, this important book is the first to focus on the role of area-based initiatives in this struggle. It brings together a wide range of evidence to review the effectiveness of past initiatives, identify promising recent developments, and outline innovative ways forward for the future. It shows how local policymakers and practitioners can actively respond to the complexities of place and is aimed at all those actively seeking to tackle disadvantage, including policymakers, practitioners, academics and students, across education and the social sciences.
This chapter explores evidence of how Muslims experience various forms of inequality, disadvantage and discrimination. In doing so, it considers ways in which race, ethnicity and religion, as multiple axes of differentiation, intersect in complex ways to shape Muslim family life. The chapter begins by assessing government approaches to tackling multiple forms of discrimination against Muslims taking into consideration religion, race and ethnicity. It then moves on to consider the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, assessing how Muslim family life was depicted
-born population (without an immigrant background) may be as ‘disadvantaged’ as those of families with an immigrant and ethnic-minority background, which is one of the crucial points in our study; however, a comparative perspective is often overlooked in such research. The perception of mothering by a self-employed middle-class native-born English mother and a second-generation immigrant mother of Afro–Caribbean heritage, who both live in one of the disadvantaged areas of Greater London, is the prime focus of this chapter. Application of the biographical method to interviews
This chapter will consider processes by which social disadvantage occurs, namely: differential access to resources for the meeting of material needs, resulting in poverty and/or inequality; associated social divisions that result in social exclusion and misrecognition; dehumanising relations of power that result in alienation, oppression and exploitation. Those whose human needs are not met experience social disadvantage. Except in cases of unforeseeable natural disaster, such disadvantage arises through the workings or dysfunctions of social
9 Changing ethnic disadvantage TWO Changing ethnic disadvantage: an overview David Mason Background In this chapter, I aim to set out the context in which we have to understand the apparent increasing diversity of experiences of disadvantage by Britain’s minority ethnic communities. In doing so I shall try, so far as is possible, to avoid anticipating too much of the material that is set out in the following chapters. A key underlying assumption of what I have to say is that neither diversity nor variations in the experience of ethnic disadvantage are new
105 5 Socio-economic disadvantage and poverty In addition to the issues explored in Chapter 4 there are a number of risks and inequalities that affect the mental health and well-being of particular groups of older people. The nature and impact of three prominent issues are explored in Chapters 5 to 7: socio-economic disadvantage and poverty; abuse and mistreatment; and the fourth age, frailty and transitions. While not experienced by all, or even the majority of older people, these are risks that have powerful implications for mental health and, as such
“Disadvantaged by where you live?” distils lessons from work on neighbourhoods carried out within the Cities Research Centre of the University of the West of England over the past seven years. It offers a major contribution to academic debates on the neighbourhood both as a sphere of governance and as a point of public service delivery under New Labour since 1997.
The book explores how ‘the neighbourhood’ has been used in policy in the UK; what the ‘appropriate contribution’ of neighbourhood governance is and how this relates to concepts of multi-level governance; the tensions that are visible at the neighbourhood level and what this tells us about wider governance issues.
The book explores and reflects on the notion of neighbourhood governance from a variety of perspectives that reflect the unique depth and breadth of the Centre’s research programme. Neighbourhood governance is examined in relation to: multi-level governance and city-regions; local government; mainstreaming; cross-national differences in neighbourhood policy; community and civil society; diversity; different conceptions of democracy; and, evaluation and learning. In doing so, the book identifies useful conceptual tools for analysing the present and future contribution of policy to neighbourhoods.
Part Three Traditional forms of disadvantage: new perspectives
