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Health effects of interpersonal and structural discrimination on minority groups in Europe
Umeå University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology. (Rasism, nationalism, etnicitet och migration)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2500-1686
Department of Sociology, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9096-3972
2025 (English)In: Sociology of Health and Illness, ISSN 0141-9889, E-ISSN 1467-9566, Vol. 47, no 5, article id e70054Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

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.

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John Wiley & Sons, 2025. Vol. 47, no 5, article id e70054
Keywords [en]
discrimination, Europe, harassment, minorities, self‐rated health
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Sociology (Excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology) Public Health, Global Health and Social Medicine
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Sociology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-240118DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.70054PubMedID: 40491029Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105007627816OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-240118DiVA, id: diva2:1967841
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Swedish Research Council, 2023-06002Available from: 2025-06-12 Created: 2025-06-12 Last updated: 2025-08-14Bibliographically approved

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