The phrase "affirmative action for disadvantaged groups" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about policies or initiatives aimed at supporting underrepresented or marginalized communities.
Example: "The university has implemented affirmative action for disadvantaged groups to ensure a more diverse student body."
Alternatives: "preferential treatment for underprivileged groups" or "supportive measures for marginalized communities."
Affirmative action for disadvantaged immigrant groups.
Affirmative action for disadvantaged immigrant groups. .
We still need affirmative action for underrepresented groups, including blacks, Latinos, American Indians and Southeast Asian Americans and low-income students of all backgrounds.
Colleges and universities still can, however, put a new emphasis on affirmative action for economically disadvantaged students of all races as a way of indirectly promoting racial diversity.
The Small Business Administration intends such contracts to promote affirmative action for "socially or economically disadvantaged" minorities.
What is troubling about her article, though, is that she states that we need to maintain affirmative action for certain other ethnic and racial groups.
Clearly with a suitably flexible definition of "diversity" this new argument could justify affirmative action for a very wide variety of groups.
The government is opposed to the creation of affirmative action programs for disadvantaged minorities.
BANGALORE, India, May 15 — What began in New Delhi last month as a doctors' strike to protest an affirmative action proposal for disadvantaged Indians spread over the weekend and is threatening to flare into a government vs. industry battle.
Thus affirmative action, for example, requires statistics about the numbers of members of oppressed racial groups employed in certain contexts, which in turn requires racial identification and categorization.
According to a March 2004 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education by Richard Kahlenberg ( "Toward Affirmative Action for Economic Diversity," subscription required), diversity should be defined more broadly to include the economically disadvantaged.
