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Centering community in COVID-19 responses: refugee women's livelihoods in a global pandemic
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Pub Date : 2020-12-01 , DOI: 10.1108/ijssp-07-2020-0332
Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi 1 , Grace Fortson 1 , Katherine Harder 1 , Trevor Riedmann 1
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Purpose

The purpose of this commentary is to share preliminary findings from our ethnographic research on refugee women's livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic in Portland, Oregon (USA), and to highlight the significance of community efforts in providing gender-responsive measures that address the specific needs and challenges of refugee women.

Design/methodology/approach

This commentary draws on a mixed-method approach, including ethnographic research (interviews and observations) as well as an analysis of emerging research on the social implications of COVID-19 in the fields of migration and gender.

Findings

Refugee women's livelihoods have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in various specific ways: from losing jobs and healthcare to becoming essential workers and assuming additional caretaker roles, to finding oneself again in unprecedented situations of limited mobility and social isolation. These impacts have been informed by restricted access to resources and services, lack of information about resources and services, and paramount fear due to ever-changing policy. Based on interviews and observations the authors conducted, they find that in many ways, community efforts have addressed the specific needs and challenges of refugee women in the absence of gender-responsive COVID-19 measures across institutional levels and policy areas.

Originality/value

In this commentary, the authors present original data from their ethnographic research on a particularly marginalized, yet resilient population: refugee women. By centering refugee women's experiences, the authors highlight the lack of gender-responsiveness in COVID-19 measures and provide insights into social implications of COVID-19 that often remain overlooked and understudied in discourse and politics.



中文翻译:

以社区为中心应对 COVID-19:全球大流行中的难民妇女生计

目的

本评论的目的是分享我们在美国俄勒冈州波特兰市 COVID-19 大流行期间对难民妇女生计的人种学研究的初步结果,并强调社区努力提供性别敏感措施以解决特定问题的重要性难民妇女的需求和挑战。

设计/方法/方法

本评论采用了一种混合方法,包括人种学研究(访谈和观察)以及对关于 COVID-19 在移民和性别领域的社会影响的新兴研究的分析。

发现

难民妇女的生计受到 COVID-19 大流行以各种具体方式的影响:从失去工作和医疗保健到成为基本工人并承担额外的看护角色,再到在前所未有的流动性受限和社会孤立的情况下发现自己。这些影响是由于对资源和服务的访问受限、缺乏关于资源和服务的信息以及由于政策不断变化而导致的极度恐惧。根据作者进行的采访和观察,他们发现,在机构层面和政策领域缺乏促进性别平等的 COVID-19 措施的情况下,社区努力在许多方面解决了难民妇女的具体需求和挑战。

原创性/价值

在这篇评论中,作者展示了他们对一个特别边缘化但有韧性的人群进行的民族志研究的原始数据:难民妇女。通过以难民妇女的经历为中心,作者强调了 COVID-19 措施缺乏对性别敏感的问题,并提供了对 COVID-19 的社会影响的见解,这些影响在话语和政治中经常被忽视和研究。

更新日期:2020-12-01
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