The social, cultural and economic impacts of the pandemic on ethnic and racialised groups in the UK

新冠肺炎疫情让英国现有的种族不平等模式暴露无遗，突显了种族和种族主义社区的脆弱性，不仅表现在健康状况不佳，而且涉及一系列社会和经济领域。自2012年以来，族裔动态中心率先开展了关于族裔不平等的创新性、政策性和有影响力的多学科和混合方法的社会研究。该方案将在这一往绩记录和关于这一流行病的新研究的基础上，在英国脱欧、经济衰退、黑人生活也是命悬一线的抗议活动以及种族主义和反种族主义激进主义抬头的背景下，审查危机对族裔和被种族主义的人和社区的影响。随着疫情的进展，该方案对重点关注的关键政策领域提出了新的见解：健康不平等和人口老龄化；住房和福利；教育、就业和治安；文化政治、激进主义和复原力。这些项目采用创新的定量和定性方法，从家庭和社区(微观)、机构(中观)到经济和人口变化(宏观)在多个尺度上审查新出现的族裔不平等形式。该方案包括一揽子工作，利用一项调查和2021年新的人口普查数据，探索与大流行有关的种族和族裔劣势的新模式。它还将跟踪新冠肺炎对种族主义群体身心健康的影响，重点是老年和弱势移民社区。这项工作将找出我们在了解种族主义群体和少数族裔对新冠肺炎的脆弱性方面的差距，并找出填补这些差距的途径，包括将数据联系起来和收集新数据的必要性。工作包将探索紧缩和新冠肺炎对特定地区住房不平等的影响，并追踪对劳动力市场不平等的影响及其在教育方面的路径。将探索算法在教育和警务中的使用。还将在新形式的社区和政治激进主义的背景下审查大流行后纪念和哀悼的性质。这些项目突出了族裔与移民和公民身份方面的分歧；性别、宗教和年龄的作用；地方/社区、区域、次国家和国家一级的差异；少数民族与关键机构的接触和对这些机构的信任。该方案将与主要的公共和私营部门、政府和非政府组织结成伙伴关系，以最大限度地扩大其工作的范围和影响。这将包括一个活动方案，强调研究、继续开展《守则》简报会系列以及在社交媒体、主流媒体、博客和网站上的交流。

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown existing patterns of ethnic inequality in Britain into sharp relief, highlighting the vulnerability of ethnic and racialized communities not only in terms of poor health, but across a range of social and economic arenas. The Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) has pioneered innovative, policy relevant and impactful multi-disciplinary and mixed-methods social research on ethnic inequality since 2012. Building on this track record, and on new research on the pandemic, the programme will examine the impact of the crisis on ethnic and racialized people and communities, in the context of Brexit, an economic downturn and the increased awareness of racial inequality in the wake of the Black Lives Matters protests, and the rise of racist and anti-racist activism. The programme offers new insights into key policy areas highlighted as concerns as the pandemic has progressed: health inequalities and ageing populations; housing and welfare; education, employment and policing; cultural politics, activism and resilience. The projects employ innovative quantitative and qualitative methods to examine emergent forms of ethnic inequality at multiple scales, from the household and community (micro), institutional (meso), to economic and demographic change (macro). The programme includes work packages which use a survey and the new 2021 census data to explore emerging patterns of racial and ethnic disadvantage related to the pandemic. It will also track the impact of Covid-19 on both physical and mental health of racialized groups, with a focus on older and vulnerable migrant communities. This work will identify gaps in our understanding of the vulnerability of racialized groups and ethnic minorities to Covid-19 and identify routes to filling these gaps, including linking data and the need for the collection of new data. Work packages will explore the impact of austerity and Covid-19 on housing inequalities in specific places as well as tracing the impact on labour market inequalities and their routes in education. The use of algorithms in education and policing will be explored. There will also be examination of the nature of memorialising and mourning in the wake of the pandemic in the context of new forms of community and political activism. The projects foreground the intersection of ethnicity with divisions around migration and citizenship status; the role of gender, religion and age; local/community, regional, sub-national and national level differences; the engagement of ethnic minorities with key institutions and trust in these institutions. The programme will work in partnership with key public and private sector, government and NGO organisations to maximise the reach and impact of its work. This will include a programme of events highlighting the research, continuation of the CoDE covid briefings series and communication on social media, through mainstream media, and in blogs and the website.