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Running Head:LITERATURE REVIEW ON RACISM IN AUSTRALIA 1
LITERATURE REVIEW ON RACISM IN AUSTRALIA 12
LITERATURE REVIEW ON RACISM IN AUSTRALIA
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Analysis of Racism in Australia 3
Impact of Racism 3
Effect of Institutional Racism on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 5
Cultural Clash 8
Things that can be done to Address the Issue 10
Conclusion 11
References 13
Introduction
Racism is one of the most common topics of discussion because of the frequent encounter of racist activities all around the world. Racism is believed to be a group of humans possesses different kind of behavioural traits that correspondence to the physical appearance and can be categorised based on the superiority of one race over the other. A sense of superiority and inferiority takes place among the humans based on their colour, caste, race, education, religion and many more aspects. One of the beliefs that persist in the mind of people is the racial separatism, which describes that different races should remain segregated together.
For many years, the hatred and the discrimination persist based on the racial discrimination. This has influenced wars, slavery, the formation of different nations and legal codes. However after the long-suffering that humankind has faced because of racism, the modern era of governments of almost all countries have formed strict laws that condemn racism and any violation of this law is categorised under criminal offence.
However, despite the laws, being formed the racism still exits and the violation of human rights still takes place. In this paper, the detailed discussion will be made with respect to the racism in Australia. The discussion will be made regarding community-based racism and the way, marginalisation of the people cause violation of their rights such as structural inequality, lack of social service and lack of capacity. These, building any many more points, will be discussed in this paper.
Analysis of Racism in Australia
Impact of Racism
Australia is one of the developed nations of the world. Because of the mineral rich place, the expansion of industrial work has attracted many people all around the world to make a life out of this place. Similarly with respect to the education many students from all around the world come down to Australia for an opportunity to get best of the education and the health infrastructure also attracts many people to come down to Australia to receive a better treatment. In the article, published by Bourke, Marrie and Marrie (2019), there is a severe situation of institutional racism in the Australian Hospitals.
This institutional racism has contributed to the major health gap between the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-indigenous Australians. For more than fifty years, the institutional racism was officially recognised as a serious problem. Cunneen (2019) has further added that in many situations it has been seen that the some societies with socioeconomic status have shown examples of practicing and following institutional racism. This has resulted to the poorer health care system because of this racism.
Institutional racism can be defined as controlling over any certain group and preventing them from receiving any kind of treatment, which any other people are entitled to receive. There have been many theories proposed, which defines racism with culture, institutional and individual levels; however, they do not have that much impact in today’s situation. This has led to the societal concept of growing racism belief and that has led to the institutional racism in the hospital. Aquino (2017) has further added that institutional racism in health is because of the behaviour of the health practitioner in the hospital.
The practitioner belongs to the society where the existence of the racism still exists, therefore the belief and the biasness shown in their work with respect to certain race of people. However, it cannot be denied that the institutional racism cannot be categorised under personal racism because the institution where the racism exists must have certain policies or laws that checks on this kind of racial activities and necessary steps should have been taken to prevent those incidents. According to Came and Griffith (2017), institutional racism that persist is embedded deep into the system of the organisations process, values, attitudes and behaviour and that reflects in the activities of the people working in that institution.
The structured mechanism of the racism does not need the action taken by any individual, rather it is the reflection of the structure of the societal institution, which has created and supported health inequalities. With respect to the Australia, the societal view of racism in institution in health the systematic production of racist, control and the access to materials, and the societal resources of information. However, this practice of the racism leads to discriminating one group of people and leading to betterment of other group of people. In a focused approach of organization, the discrimination in the institution can be seen in the procedures, policies, governance and the different structures of organization.
Kwansah-Aidoo and Mapedzahama (2018) have further added that the organisational view further assists in the remedy of the racism in institution within the hospitals or other healthcare services. Further, it has been seen that non-indigenous staffs related to health department needs further practical explanation and training as to understand the necessity of mechanism of change. Furthermore, in the racism found in the institution requires the institutions approach as to maintain always the racial advantage.
Impact of Racism in Institution on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
In Australia, there are many evidences are found where the poor outcome in the hospitals and healthcare facilities for Aboriginal and Torre Strait Islander people. Singer, Zwi and Menzies (2019) have discussed that as per the reports of Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the institutional racism has seen that around 53 % of the health gap is between the non-indigenous Australian and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to the social determinant of health and risk factors. The remaining 47 % of the health gap can be attributed to the institutional racism, interpersonal racism and intergenerational trauma. This can be seen regarding providing treatment to the poorer health outcome such as the provision of providing treatment of cancer to the...