“We are Forgotten”: Forced Migration, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, and Coronavirus Disease-2019

Jenny Phillimore*, Sandra Pertek, Selin Akyuz, Hoayda Darkal, Jeanine Hourani, Pip McKnight, Saime Ozcurumez, Sarah Taal

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Abstract

<jats:p> 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. </jats:p>
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2204-2230
Number of pages0
JournalViolence Against Women
Volume28
Issue number9
Early online date17 Sept 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2022

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