Migrant suicide: A case for intersectional suicide research

It has now been recognized that official suicide recording, reporting, and prevention in the United Kingdom is lacking intersectional analysis (Cohen, Katona, & Bhugra, 2020). By recording age and sex but not ethnicity, death certificates hystericize a male suicide 'crisis' while perpetuating colour-blindness (El-Tayeb, 2011). But while intersectional suicide recording will lead to more representative reporting and more targeted prevention, the very foundations of suicide: its meanings, understandings, and performances are deeply embedded within colonial structures of inequality, and if not interrogated, 'adding' intersectional statistics will not be enough to reimagine suicide practice, research, and prevention.