Martuscelli, PN;
(2021)
How Are Forcibly Displaced People Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak? Evidence From Brazil.
American Behavioral Scientist
10.1177/00027642211000402.
(In press).
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Abstract
Refugees tend to be a neglected population during health emergencies. This article studies how the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in Brazil affected forcibly displaced people considering their intersectional multiple identities. I conducted 29 semistructured phenomenological interviews with refugees living in the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro between March 27 and April 06, 2020. These states’ governors closed nonessential services and schools. The results indicate that refugees face three challenges connected to this pandemic: (a) same challenges as Brazilians due to their labor vulnerability social identity, (b) challenges aggravated by the pandemic due to their identity of nonnationals including access to information and services, and (c) new challenges due to their social identity of forced displaced nonnationals including closing of migration services and borders and the feeling of “living the pandemic twice.” This research contributes to the literature of intersectionality and asylum by understanding how refugees in the Global South are affected by pandemics and responses to them, considering their own lived experiences and multiple social identities.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | How Are Forcibly Displaced People Affected by the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak? Evidence From Brazil |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1177/00027642211000402 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00027642211000402 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | refugees, Brazil, COVID-19, pandemic, forced migration |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10125742 |
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