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No One Wants to Hire Us: The intersectional precarity experienced by Venezuelan LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in Brazil during COVID-19.
- Source :
- Anti-Trafficking Review; Sep2023, Issue 21, p52-70, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This article presents a case study of how COVID-19 has increased the precarity and risks of labour exploitation for vulnerable populations. Looking at the situation of LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seekers in Brazil during COVID-19, it examines how the challenges they faced were exacerbated during the pandemic and how the Brazilian government’s poor response to COVID-19 and lockdown policies forced LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seekers to take greater risks that exposed them to the virus. Based on 56 surveys with LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seekers in Manaus, Brazil, the article discusses how COVID-19 impacted the livelihoods of LGBTQ+ Venezuelan asylum seekers. Specifically, it demonstrates that transgender and travesti Venezuelan asylum seekers experienced more labour precarity, discrimination, and violence during the pandemic than their cisgender counterparts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COVID-19 pandemic
PRECARITY
POLITICAL refugees
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22867511
- Issue :
- 21
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Anti-Trafficking Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174021517
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201223214