Toll of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Primary Caregiver in Yazidi Refugee Families in Canada: A Feminist Refugee Epistemological Analysis

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dc.contributor.authorBanerjee, Pallavi
dc.contributor.authorChacko, Soulit
dc.contributor.authorKorsha, Souzan
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-07T18:23:13Z
dc.date.available2022-02-07T18:23:13Z
dc.date.issued2022-01
dc.descriptionComparative Intersectional Analysis of the Resettlement Process and Integration Pathsen_US
dc.description.abstractExisting discourse on refugee resettlement in the West is rife with imperialist and neoliberal allusions. Materially, this discourse assumes refugees as passive recipients of resettlement programs in the host country denying them their subjectivities. Given the amplification of all social and economic inequities during the pandemic, our paper explores how Canada's response to the pandemic vis-a-vis refugees impacted the everyday of Yazidis in Calgary - a recently arrived refugee group who survived the most horrific genocidal atrocities of our times. Based on interviews with Yazidi families in Calgary and with resettlement staff we unpack Canada's paternalistic response to COVID-19 toward refugees. We show how resettlement provisions and social isolation along with pre-migration histories have furthered the conditions of social, economic, and affective inequities for the Yazidis. We also show how Yazidi women who were most impacted by the genocide and the subsequent pandemic find ways of asserting their personhood and engage in healing through a land-based resettlement initiative during the pandemic. Adopting a Feminist Refugee Epistemology and a southern moral imaginary as our discursive lenses, we highlight the need to dismantle the existing paternalistic structures and re(orient) resettlement practices and praxis to a social justice framework centering the voices of refugee women and families in their resettlement process.en_US
dc.description.grantingagencySocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)en_US
dc.identifier.citationBanerjee, P., Chacko, S., & Korsha, S. (2021). Toll of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Primary Caregiver in Yazidi Refugee Families in Canada: A Feminist Refugee Epistemological Analysis. Studies in Social Justice.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v16i1.2692en_US
dc.identifier.grantnumber10021214en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/114407
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBrock Universityen_US
dc.publisher.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.hasversionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen_US
dc.publisher.institutionIndiana University - Purdue University Indianapolisen_US
dc.publisher.policyhttps://journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/SSJ/about/submissions#authorGuidelinesen_US
dc.relation.hasversionhttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39397
dc.rights(c) 2022 Pallavi Banerjee, Soulit Chacko, Souzan Korshaen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.subjectrefugee settlementen_US
dc.subjectgenderen_US
dc.subjectdecolonial analysisen_US
dc.subjectYazidisen_US
dc.subjectRohingyaen_US
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.titleToll of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Primary Caregiver in Yazidi Refugee Families in Canada: A Feminist Refugee Epistemological Analysisen_US
dc.typejournal articleen_US
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ucalgary.scholar.levelFacultyen_US
ucalgary.scholar.levelPost Doctoral Fellowen_US
ucalgary.scholar.levelGraduateen_US
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