Covid-19 and discriminatory practices against refugees on Lesvos, Greece COVID 19 quarantine practices are nothing new. Enforced, discriminatory treatment of refugee populations on the grounds of the protection of public health have a long history. Since the outbreak...
During the Covid19 Pandemic and forward, Chaplains will increase their role as Health Promoter and Disease Prevention. The rhythm and dynamism of society give human groups new biological and behavioral profiles. The changes observed since the Covid-19 pandemic in the...
During the lockdown, the Sisters Not Strangers coalition conducted research on how asylum-seeking women were surviving the pandemic. Over 100 women in England and Wales, already vulnerable to hunger, homelessness and ill health before the outbreak, responded to tell...
Using Creative Participatory Methods “We moved our lives here seeking safety and now under lockdown our lives moved online.” With the pandemic, our lives as well as our research methods have had to move online. Digital methods proved to be both a challenge and an...
In the period since lockdown, along with sections of the health sector,trade unions, the care sector and sections of the Labour party, NGOs like Refugee Action have teamed up with refugee self-advocacy organizations, like Freed Voices, to make clear demands of the UK...
For Palestinians – as for many refugees in camps and detention – a state of lockdown is nothing new. In Elia Suleiman’s gentle comedy It Must Be Heaven, he seems to foretell, with empty city-scapes, and omnipresent police – how COVID-19 can affect the most vulnerable....
