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Tytuł:
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Fault Lines of Refugee Exclusion: Statelessness, Gender, and COVID-19 in South Asia.
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Autorzy:
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Chakraborty R; Undergraduate student in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies and the Department of Global Health and Health Policy at Harvard College, Cambridge, USA.
Bhabha J; Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Director of Research at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, and Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, USA.
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Źródło:
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Health and human rights [Health Hum Rights] 2021 Jun; Vol. 23 (1), pp. 237-250.
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Typ publikacji:
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Journal Article
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Język:
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English
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Imprint Name(s):
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Original Publication: Boston, MA : Harvard School of Public Health, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, c1994-
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MeSH Terms:
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COVID-19*
Gender Equity*
Gender-Based Violence*
Human Rights*
Refugees*
Asia ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Pandemics ; Women
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Entry Date(s):
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Date Created: 20210701 Date Completed: 20210727 Latest Revision: 20231107
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Update Code:
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20240105
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PubMed Central ID:
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PMC8233015
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PMID:
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34194216
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Despite widespread recognition of the right to a nationality, statelessness and its attendant vulnerabilities continue to characterize the lives of millions in South Asia. During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when states turned inward to protect their own citizens, refugees and de facto stateless persons found themselves excluded from humanitarian services and health care and were denied the ability to claim rights. Stateless women faced the additional burden of gender-based violence, a hostile labor market, and the threat of trafficking. This paper analyzes gender and statelessness as vectors of exclusion in South Asia, where asylum seekers are neither recognized by law nor protected by social institutions. We argue that citizenship constitutes an unearned form of social capital that is claimed and experienced in distinctively gendered ways. The pandemic has shone a bright light on the perils of statelessness, particularly for women, who face exacerbated economic inequities, the forced commodification of their sexuality, and exclusion from mechanisms of justice.
Competing Interests: Competing interests: None declared.
(Copyright © 2021 Chakraborty and Bhabha.)
