Black and Asian people face a heightened risk of falling prey to gambling due to systemic racism, a landmark report suggests.
The uneven playing field was laid bare in the UK’s first major research about gambling struggles within ethnic minority communities.
Entitled ‘Lived experiences of gambling, gambling-related harms, and crime within ethnic minority communities’, the report highlights how the path into the betting underworld is often related to trauma and stress. Some view gambling as a normal response to structural, social, and economic disadvantages, the report states.
Published by the Commission on Crime and Gambling Related Harms, it found that people moving to the UK where gambling is normalised entrenched the inequalities they faced.
