TY - JOUR
AU - Burns, Nicola
AU - Mulvey, Gareth
AU - Piacentini, Teresa
AU - Vidal, Nicole
PY - 2022
DA - April
TI - Refugees, political bounding and the pandemic: material effects and experiences of categorisations amongst refugees in Scotland
JO - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2022.2058471
AB - Scholars are increasingly interested in and concerned with both the way various migrant populations are categorised, and the lived impacts of that categorisation. In this article, we examine how categorisation was experienced by people at various stages of the refugee journey during the biggest public health crisis for generations. We argue, using original interview data, that the way refugees are categorised, or politically bound, has material impacts on the way they experience their lives, and that this was evident in extremis during the Covid-19 lockdown in Scotland. As populations attempted to traverse public health messaging, this is shown to interact with longstanding state proclivities to control, marginalise and stratify. Consequently, how people experienced and managed the request to ‘stay home and save lives’ varied markedly by where they were in their refugee journey and how they arrived in the UK.
PB - Taylor and Francis
UR - http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/268082/
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER