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.

在紧急情况下，难民往往是被忽视的人群。本文研究了巴西COVID-19大流行的爆发如何影响考虑到他们多重身份的被迫流离失所者。在2020年3月27日至4月6日之间，我对生活在圣保罗州和里约热内卢州的难民进行了29次半结构的现象学访谈。这些州的州长关闭了不必要的服务和学校。结果表明，难民面临与此大流行有关的三个挑战：（a）由于其劳动脆弱性的社会身份而与巴西人面临相同的挑战；（b）由于其非国民身份而使大流行加剧的挑战，包括获得信息和服务的机会，（c）由于其被迫流离失所的非国民的社会身份而面临的新挑战，包括关闭移徙服务和边境以及“两次大流行”的感觉。这项研究通过了解全球南方的难民如何受到流行病的影响和对他们的反应，并考虑到他们自己的生活经历和多种社会身份，为交叉和庇护的文献做出了贡献。