The Anti-Racist Educator5 Huhti 2021

Racism, Islamophobia & Mental Health: In Conversation with Karim Mitha

In this wide-ranging episode, Hashim spoke with Karim Mitha back in October 2020 about the influence of racism on mental health, with a focus on Muslim communities in Scotland.

Karim is a speciality registrar in public health medicine with expertise in ethnic health inequalities, social determinants of health, and migrant communities and mental health.

Find out more about Karim's work here and follow him on Twitter @_KarimMitha

Further Resources:

APPG Islamophobia definition:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/599c3d2febbd1a90cffdd8a9/t/5bfd1ea3352f531a6170ceee/1543315109493/Islamophobia+Defined.pdf

Minority stress and mental health:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022146518814251

Overview on impacts of racism and mental health by Kam Bhui and Dinesh Bhugra:

https://synergicollaborativecentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/The-impact-of-racism-on-mental-health-briefing-paper-1.pdf

A presentation I did at the World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race, and Health:

https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/28/suppl_1/cky047.013/4973057

"No problem here - Understanding Racism in Scotland" https://www.luath.co.uk/politics-and-current-issues/no-problem-here-racism-in-scotland

Data on inequalities in mental health treatment:

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn06988/

Scarlet Harris' article on the obscuring of institutional racism in writing about Muslims in Scotland: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0306396818793583

Mental health inequalities experienced by minority communities in Scotland:

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/more-research-urged-into-mental-health-of-bame-scots?top

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45565034

Experiences of Islamophobia experienced by Muslim doctors:

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/islamophobia-nhs-patients-muslims-religion-abuse-discrimination_uk_5f567984c5b62b3add4442b6?utm_hp_ref=uk-islamophobia

Music: Che Lingo, 'Bobbing for Apples'

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