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refugee populations, in the global north and in megacities such as Mumbai, Shanghai and São Paulo in the global south. Some rates are elevated in some migrants, sometimes only in the second generation, but the findings are equivocal, and migration itself does not seem to be a consistent causal factor for mental ill health – indeed sometimes quite the reverse. Can we link biomedical explanations with sociological and anthropological research to understand the ways in which the experiences of poverty, inequality, precarity, gender discrimination, racism, stigma, social
paradox of improved access to better-paid jobs in cities and the presence of community-led initiatives in those areas. Aware of such caveats, Rose also discusses urban perils and their buffers. The key question is how to create mechanisms that understand socially and biomedically how the experience of poverty, inequality, racism or gender discrimination may lead to mental distress. Such a mechanism, Rose sustains, is key to avoiding misidentification of key roots in the provision of wellbeing. In a society yearning for life quality, all too often simplified explanations
own income. As for the broad types identified, the most common was psychological/emotional violence (48 per cent), followed by physical violence (38 per cent) and sexual violence (14 per cent). Unwelcome physical contact was the commonest specific form of GBV (experienced by 42 per cent), together with physical assault (36 per cent) and being humiliated or suffering discrimination (33 per cent). The majority of perpetrators were known to women (66 per cent); although one third of GBV was committed by strangers, almost a quarter (23 per cent) was by an intimate
terms of a single workplace, but in terms of the ability to enter multiple workspaces, as consultants, commentators and managers of change. It should not be assumed, however, that such elite groups do not contest the demands of working arrangements on their lives. For instance, after Merrill Lynch made Working Mother magazine’s ‘best employers’ list in 2000, a group of women stockbrokers, who had sued the company for sex discrimination, campaigned by hiring light aircraft with banners and storming a shareholders’ meeting (New York Times, 30 January 2001: 3). The
the likelihood of reporting low use of the outdoors, and included covariates selected to represent groups with legal protections from discrimination on the basis of ‘protected characteristics’ in the UK Equality Act 2010. In addition to these categorical variables representing the protected characteristics of age, disability status, gender, race/ethnicity, religion, sexual
from their communal and natural roots and replace the fabric of society with systems, practices and values that were foreign and incongruent to sustain rural AN life. However, these historical facts are not confined to history, as historical traumas have informed and manipulated contemporary contexts (for example, discrimination, racism, marginalisation, health disparities; Gone
of endorsing a merely adaptive mode that secures happiness beyond growth by a shift towards “immaterial” values, coping strategies and compensatory imaginaries, which might mask anti-emancipatory discrimination ideologically’. One might be tempted to draw parallels between a quiet rural life often described as a romantic rural idyll and such adaptive modes. There is, however
distinction between possession and dealing of drugs, and this further blurs interpretation by the courts and, indeed, by the police. With such blurred boundaries at their discretion, the majority of magistrates inevitably reproduce social inequalities. Their subjective assessments, which have very objective effects, tend to reiterate the discrimination of the culture in which they were brought up – one that continues to prejudice social inequality. The effects of this cocktail have been far more serious than the ingestion of any drug. The result is the following: if the