Report looks at ‘poverty stigma’ through a new lens to stamp it out of society

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Report looks at ‘******** stigma’ through a new lens to stamp it out of society

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Stigma is a glue that holds ********, inequality and economic insecurity in place enabling and exacerbating inequalities of wealth, health and opportunity, says a

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******** stigma is a “wicked social problem,” highly complex, difficult to define and challenging to solve, says the report.

Co-authored by Professor Imogen Tyler, from the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, and Sarah Campbell, the Head of Participation and Advocacy at *** leading ******** charity Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the report is the outcome of a year-long project involving a group of ten people from a diverse range of lived experiences and professional expertise.

The JRF ******** and Stigma Design team includes people with lived and learned knowledge of ******** and ******** stigma from a range of sectors including housing associations, local government, care experienced sector, arts and youth work, health and disability charities, and academia.

Loosening the grip of that stigma provides a “key lever” to change the collective work being carried out to combat ******** in the ***.

Published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), the report highlights that ******** and ******** stigma are “inextricably entangled social problems” that reinforce and feed each other, and that must be tackled together.

With 3.8 million people, including 1 million children, currently recorded as living in situations the JRF defines as destitution, and tens of millions more struggling to make ends meet during a cost-of-living crisis, ******** is seriously affecting the nation’s health and mental health.

Working with the JRF ******** and Stigma Design team and lead author of the report, Professor Tyler, a leading expert on stigma, says, “******** in the *** is a political choice. The stigmatization of people living in ******** works to shift the blame onto individuals and families experiencing ******** and this helps justify the shockingly high rates of ******** and destitution we are now seeing in our society. To combat ********, we need to stop the stigma.”

The study recommends anti-******** work needs to be anti-stigma work at its roots and in every branch of collective action towards ending ******** in the ***. Designing stigma out of social systems of ******** and support is integral to the ****** for economic justice and economic security.

The group concludes that stigma:

• Is not a “natural outcome” of ********—rather it is socially produced.
• Is manufactured by the powerful, including politicians and media.
• Frames public perceptions about the causes of ********, shifting blame away from the systems that created it onto individuals.
• Shapes how people living in ******** are represented and how people experience ********.
• Is designed into systems and programs of ******** and support, and functions as both a deterrent to help-seeking and a tool for rationing resources.
• Seeps into everyday interactions, and for those on the receiving end, the psychological impact can be as devastating as the struggle involved in surviving a low-income.

The report makes recommendations for effective action on ******** which include reframing ******** as an issue of economic injustice and in relation to wealth inequality and developing rights-based understandings and approaches to ******** mitigation.

It also suggests combating rising in-work ******** by challenging the stigmatization of low-paid work as “low-skilled,” and by campaigning for real living wages, pay equity and maximum wage ratios as well as rejecting the stigmatizing classification of disabled people and those with unpaid caring responsibilities as “economically inactive.”

Going forward, the team hopes to create and test an array of tools to support organizations to design stigma out of policies and services.

They also want to commission a range of creative projects working with journalists, artists, creative practitioners, community activists and people on the receiving end of stigma to create images and stories which challenge stigmatizing ******** narratives to produce “anti-stigma” image and story banks for journalists, news and charitable organizations.

Sarah Campbell from JRF said, “Stigma is repeatedly deemed an issue in need of urgent attention by people who experience ********. This new analysis takes the understanding to a new level and is a call for action to all those working to address the issue of ********. To address ********, we must undo the glue that holds it in place.”

Steve Arnott, a member of the JRF Stigma and ******** Design Team who grew up in ******** and is now a youth outreach worker with disadvantaged young people in Hull with Beats Bus, said, “Starting off your life off living in ********, leaving school in ********, getting a job but still being in ********, ******** is a very hard place to get out of.

“The stigma makes everything worse. Stigma holds ******** in place. It harms and silences people. We can get can stuck in our own ***** of being judged by others for being poor. The media also pushes a lot of ******** stigma, it brainwashes people into blaming people for ********.

“This JRF project is about raising awareness about ******** stigma, about educating people about the harm it does, and about coming up with tools we need to tackle it. This report is a first step in that work.”

More information:
Imogen Tyler et al,

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