This report is part of a research program on the lived experience of gambling harm in minority groups in Great Britain. Previous research suggests that minority groups in Great Britain tend to gamble less frequently than their white counterparts, but are more likely to experience gambling harms.
This survey sought to explore the role of structural racism and inequalities, stigmatization, and barriers to accessing support for gambling harm in ethnic minority groups. Minority groups include ethnic minorities, religious minorities, people with asylum seeker and refugee backgrounds, and people for whom English is a second anguage. Findings include that people from minority groups are significantly more likely than those from majority groups to report that gambling can be used as a coping mechanism. In addition, while minority groups are less likely to gamble, they are also significantly more likely to experience gambling harms (42% of people who gamble experienced some level of harms compared to 20% of people from majority groups).
