How Are Forcibly Displaced People Affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic Outbreak? Evidence From Brazil

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3758477
AutoresPatrícia Nabuco Martuscelli (0000-0003-2611-2513, University College London, England, UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume65
Fascículo10
Páginas1342-1364
Data de publicação2021-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027642211000402
PMID38603086
OpenAlexW3139257527
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas36

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

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Disease · Geography · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Outbreak · Pandemic · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Virology