The report, entitled ‘Racism, belonging and Covid’s legacy of ethnic inequalities in Scotland’ was authored by Professor Nissa Finney from the School of Geography and Sustainable Development.
It found that, in Scotland, experiencing bereavement was highest for those identifying with ‘Any other’ ethnic group (68%), Indian (44 %) and Pakistani (38%). The national average was around 25%.
Similar levels of bereavement experience were found for ethnic minority groups in England and Wales.
The report is a collaboration between researchers at the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) at the University of St Andrews and the University of Manchester and the Ethnic Minority Voluntary Sector umbrella body BEMIS, and has for the first time collated data to show the ethnic inequalities in experience of bereavement during the Covid-19 crisis.
The report also collated data around various questions relating to discrimination and racism in Scotland’s ethnic groups, including attitudes to nationhood, belonging, political trust and relationship to policing.
It revealed that 9 in 10 Black Caribbean respondents in Scotland had recent experience of racist insult. Other minorities - Chinese (44%), Other Black (41%, and White Irish (33%) - had also experienced insult in the last five years for reasons to do with their ethnicity, race, colour or religion.
Nissa Finney is Professor of Human Geography at St Andrews, Director of the Evidence for Equality National Survey, founding member of the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE), and member of the ESRC Centre for Population Change. She has researched, taught and published widely on ethnic inequalities, residential mobility, housing, neighbourhood change, segregation and research methods.