TY - JOUR
T1 - “We are forgotten”
T2 - forced migration, sexual and gender-based violence, and coronavirus disease-2019
AU - Phillimore, Jenny
AU - Pertek, Sandra
AU - Akyuz, Selin
AU - Darkal, Hoayda
AU - Hourani, Jeanine
AU - Mcknight, Pip
AU - Ozcurumez, Saime
AU - Taal, Sarah
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (grant number 1258658). The SEREDA Project is funded through the Europe and Global Challenges and Lansons. The “Forced migration, SGBV and COVID-19” project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/9/17
Y1 - 2021/9/17
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - COVID-19
KW - pandemic
KW - structural violence
KW - forced migrant women
KW - SGBV
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85111044045&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/10778012211030943
DO - 10.1177/10778012211030943
M3 - Article
C2 - 34533382
SN - 1552-8448
JO - Violence against Women
JF - Violence against Women
ER -