TY - JOUR
T1 - “We are Forgotten”: 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
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
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.
U2 - 10.1177/10778012211030943
DO - 10.1177/10778012211030943
M3 - Article
SN - 1077-8012
VL - 28
SP - 2204
EP - 2230
JO - Violence Against Women
JF - Violence Against Women
IS - 9
ER -