We are Forgotten”

Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, and Coronavirus Disease-2019

Bibliographic Data

ID12435671
AuthorsJ Phillimore (0000-0003-1213-2302, Social Policy, University of Birmingham Edgbaston Campus, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, corresponding author), Sandra Iman Pertek (0000-0003-4329-0258, Social Policy, University of Birmingham Edgbaston Campus, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK), Selin Akyuz (0000-0003-3091-0139, Department of Political Science and International Relations, TED University, Turkey), Hoayda Darkal (Social Policy, University of Birmingham Edgbaston Campus, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK), Jeanine Hourani (0009-0008-3261-6092, Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), Pip McKnight (0000-0002-7561-5013, Refugee Women Connect, Manchester, UK), Saime Ozcurumez (0000-0003-3957-6915, Department of Political Science and International Relations, TED University, Turkey), Sarah Taal (Baobab Women’s Project, Birmingham, UK)
Year2021
Volume28
Issue9
Pages2204-2230
Publication date2021-09-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778012211030943
PMID34533382
OpenAlexW3201003885
LanguageEN
Citations received29
References cited52

Adopting a structural violence approach, this article explores, with survivors and practitioners, how early coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic conditions affected forced migrant sexual and gender-based violence survivors' lives. Introducing a new analytical framework combining violent abandonment, slow violence, and violent uncertainty, we show how interacting forms of structural violence exacerbated by pandemic conditions intensified existing inequalities. Abandonment of survivors by the state increased precarity, making everyday survival more difficult, and intensified prepandemic slow violence, while increased uncertainty heightened survivors' psychological distress. Structural violence experienced during the pandemic can be conceptualized as part of the continuum of violence against forced migrants, which generates gendered harm

Abandonment (legal · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Criminology · Disease · Domestic violence · Harm · Infectious disease (medical specialty · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Pandemic · Poison control · Political science · Precarity · Sexual violence · Sociology · Structural violence · Suicide prevention · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology