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

Banerjee, Pallavi; Chacko, Soulit; Korsha, Souzan

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

dc.contributor.author	Banerjee, Pallavi
dc.contributor.author	Chacko, Soulit
dc.contributor.author	Korsha, Souzan
dc.date.accessioned	2021-11-23T20:58:03Z
dc.date.available	2021-11-23T20:58:03Z
dc.date.issued	2021-11-20
dc.description	Comparative Intersectional Analysis of the Resettlement Process and Integration Paths	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Existing 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-visa 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 engaging 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.grantingagency	Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Banerjee, 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 (Pre-print). Studies in Social Justice.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/39397
dc.identifier.grantnumber	10021214	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/114136
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	Brock University	en_US
dc.publisher.department	Sociology	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts	en_US
dc.publisher.hasversion	submittedVersion	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	IUPUI	en_US
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dc.relation.isversionof	https://doi.org/10.26522/ssj.v16i1.2692
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dc.subject	Yazidis women	en_US
dc.subject	Covid-19	en_US
dc.subject	Feminist Refugee Epistemology	en_US
dc.subject	southern moral imaginary	en_US
dc.subject	resettlement	en_US
dc.title	Toll of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Primary Caregiver in Yazidi Refugee Families in Canada: A Feminist Refugee Epistemological Analysis	en_US
dc.type	journal article	en_US
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ucalgary.scholar.level	Faculty	en_US
ucalgary.scholar.level	Post Doctoral Fellow	en_US
ucalgary.scholar.level	Graduate	en_US