How has the Olympic legacy transformed the heart of East London? Understanding socio-economic exclusions and disproportionate Covid-19 impact on minoritised communities through a rights-based perspective

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ID4654032
AuthorsFarjana Islam (0000-0001-7955-8469, Heriot-Watt University, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume5
Pages1170466-1170466
Publication date2023-07-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Sports and Active Living (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2624-9367 • E-ISSN: 2624-9367
PublisherFrontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fspor.2023.1170466
PMID37547817
OpenAlexW4385069288
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited22

This research paper explores the experience of British-Bangladeshi and Black African Caribbean communities living in the areas surrounding London's Olympic Park, in terms of how they are appropriating the legacy-led socio-spatial changes, applying Lefebvre's right to the city perspective. Highlighting the top-down legacy-led regeneration process, the empirical evidence suggests that the games-led regeneration is contributing to an unjust trade-off between pre-existing minoritised ethnic residents and wealthier gentrifiers, ignoring the real needs of the socially and economically disadvantaged ethnic minority communities in East London. The findings provide a further understanding of factors such as housing and health-related inequalities and sub-standard living conditions, which may have contributed to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the Bangladeshi and African Caribbean people living in East London boroughs. Given the scale of the pandemic, the paper argues that a greater understanding of the socio-structural problems and barriers arising out of poverty and deprivation is needed in order to formulate appropriate policy interventions to reduce disproportionate social, economic and health-related impacts on some minoritised communities, which could be achieved through residents' active participation and appropriation at different stages of the legacy-led regeneration process

Appropriation · Development economics · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Inequality · Political science · Poverty · Sociology · Law · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance

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