The Homecoming Project Report & Literature Review

Without exception,
every interviewee discussed ways in which they had felt
discriminated against or had observed unequal treatment in
the workplace on the basis of ethnicity. Such incidents ranged
from what appeared to be blatant discrimination to more subtle
actions (or inactions) which excluded or isolated black workers
or prevented them from progressing.

The prevalence
of late diagnosis perhaps helps to explain why, for most
interviewees, disability was felt to have had less of an impact
on their experiences in the workplace than blackness.
That said, many expressed frustration at the speed with
which requests for occupational health assessments or for
reasonable adjustments had been responded to.

For the purposes of this research, we were curious to find
out how blackness and neurodivergence intersect. In the
event, it felt as if the relative impacts of each varied over
time and according to context. In addition, some of the
female interviewees discussed the ways in which gender had
impacted their experiences. Others discussed the impacts of
social class.