As part of a collaborative research project between people from racialised communities, London School of Economics and Equality Trust, Berah shares her insights into what is wealth, what helps and hinders people from racialised communities to build wealth and what could make a difference. The research was funded by the British Academy Innovation Fellowship Scheme (Fellowship number IF2324/24008). You can find the summary briefing from this project and any further information from www.equalitytrust.org.uk
This person identifies wealth as not only being about money and discusses the challenges of some immigrants coming to the UK with nothing then not being able to build wealth. She describes the challenge of being in low paid jobs, the criteria around being able to work and her cultural tradition of caring for her family outside of the country as well as within. Storyteller discusses the difficulty in knowing how to invest and a lack of information available which makes people not want to take the risk.
