The phrase 'marginalized backgrounds' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a population of people who are outside the mainstream and are subject to discrimination due to poverty, lack of education, or any similar conditions. For example: "The research study focused on citizens from marginalized backgrounds who lacked access to basic health services."
Within the context of graduate education, for instance, it means going beyond focusing exclusively on the number of students belonging to particular populations and moving toward creating a culture in which students from historically marginalized backgrounds feel that they are truly part of the fabric of the institution.
Additionally, the results of a meta-analysis of mindfulness- and acceptance-based treatments with clients from nondominant cultural and/or marginalized backgrounds are presented.
A critical step in the development and evaluation of these new approaches to treatment is to determine the acceptability and efficacy of these treatments for clients from nondominant cultural and/or marginalized backgrounds.
Telling trans stories -- while we are alive -- is so important, especially the stories of those from marginalized backgrounds.
Spiegelman and Mouly created a website for Resist!, complete with a call for submissions of half-page comics by artists of diverse and marginalized backgrounds.
I think it disproportionally impacts people from marginalized backgrounds because we already have to work so hard to feel whole, to supplement the feedback we get from society that sometimes makes us feel diminished with self-love and community love.
I enjoy watching Glenn on The Walking Dead, because he's useful in the war against the zombies and not marginalized for his background.
After the field armies took over Zhejiang province, local cadres with guerrilla backgrounds were marginalized in politics and thus were compelled to mitigate the vulnerability to potential attacks through garnering support of grassroots cadres and the masses.
But while Mr. Fowler makes documentaries about artists and eccentrics marginalized by society, his background in music and his fluency in the history of underground film inspire him to take dizzying liberties with the documentary form.
Now, as then, those who challenge the prevailing narrative, no matter how strong their case and no matter how solid their background, are being marginalized.
On the other hand, I found that teachers with a non-Chinese major background were largely marginalized in the faculty because senior scholars deemed our knowledge of Chinese as "problematic and less solid" than Chinese major graduates.
