Mitchell Jeffrey, La Parra-Casado Daniel
Department of Sociology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Department of Sociology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
Sociol Health Illn. 2025 Jun;47(5):e70054. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.70054.
This article analyses the health effects of discrimination experiences across several minority groups in Europe. Despite a broad literature advancing the idea that discrimination is a focal point for the social determinants of health among minority groups, research attempting to disentangle the health effects of interpersonal forms of discrimination and harassment from structural forms of discrimination is underexamined. Furthermore, these experiences may impact different minority groups to a greater or lesser extent due to that group's position in the social hierarchy. We address this gap in the literature by analysing the Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II), including 19,179 respondents in six minority groups across 25 countries. We show that experiencing interpersonal discrimination and harassment has a large and consistent negative effect on the health of respondents across all groups, with some variation across different minority groups. This finding is concerning given how common these experiences are in the European context. We also show a small but consistent relationship across groups between living in segregated neighbourhoods and poorer health, whereas a negative relationship between health and living in overcrowded housing exists only for the Russian minority.
本文分析了欧洲几个少数群体中歧视经历对健康的影响。尽管有大量文献提出歧视是少数群体健康的社会决定因素的焦点,但试图区分人际形式的歧视和骚扰与结构性歧视对健康影响的研究却未得到充分考察。此外,由于该群体在社会等级制度中的地位,这些经历可能对不同少数群体产生或多或少的影响。我们通过分析第二次欧盟少数群体与歧视调查(EU-MIDIS II)来填补这一文献空白,该调查涵盖了25个国家的六个少数群体中的19179名受访者。我们发现,经历人际歧视和骚扰对所有群体受访者的健康都有巨大且一致的负面影响,不同少数群体之间存在一些差异。鉴于这些经历在欧洲背景下如此普遍,这一发现令人担忧。我们还发现,居住在隔离社区与健康状况较差之间在各群体中存在微小但一致的关系,而健康与居住在过度拥挤住房之间的负面关系仅在俄罗斯少数群体中存在。