Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of COVID-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda

Thompson, Sue; Rohwerder, Brigitte

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“…A narrative interview approach was selected as its unstructured and depth-seeking format was deemed to be appropriate for gathering highly personal data from a group of marginalised individuals. Narrative interviews have been successfully used when gathering data about people with disabilities in other contexts, since they can ensure full and meaningful inclusion of all participants if they are carefully planned and implemented (Rohwerder et al, 2021;Thompson & Rohwerder, 2023;Thompson et al, 2021;. Narrative interviews are subject-led, generating highly personal and individual, situational, emotional, and relational insights in a way that researcher-led interviews may not be able to.…”

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Disability, Religion, and Gender: Exploring Experiences of Exclusion in India Through an Intersectional Lens

Thompson,

Rohwerder,

Mukherjee

2023

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Despite the existence of national and international laws and conventions to avoid discrimination in India, exclusion due to an intersection of disability, gender, and religious identity continues, resulting in marginalisation from society. This article investigates the lived experiences of people by exploring how aspects of their identity intersect to influence their inclusion or exclusion within society. Narrative interviews were undertaken with 25 participants with disabilities in the states of Tamil Nadu and West Bengal. This qualitative methodology was employed to allow the participants to recount their experiences (both positive and negative) in their own words. A thematic analysis of the data provided rich evidence of the complex social structure in India, manifested by the multifaceted intersectional nature of social inclusion and exclusion. Our research found that for our participants disability was the main factor upon which discrimination was based, but that this discrimination is often compounded for people with disabilities due to their minority religious status, or gender. Marginalisation of people with disabilities is shown to be exacerbated when these identities intersect. Action is needed to ensure the human rights of people with disabilities are realised and that discrimination and marginalisation are avoided for those who have different identities compared to the majority of the population.

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Disability, Religion, and Gender: Exploring Experiences of Exclusion in India Through an Intersectional Lens

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Rohwerder,

Mukherjee

2023

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“…While many disability scholars have emphasized the disabling nature of public spaces (e.g., Devlieger & Strickfaden, 2012; Freund, 2001; Imrie & Kumar, 1998; Thompson & Rohwerder, 2023), we attend to the disabling (or debilitating) nature of confinement to the home. In other words, we focus on home confinement not as a result of ableist socio-material structures outside of it, but rather as productive of disability.…”

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The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces

2023

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Care for disabled family members in Brazil has historically been concentrated in the home, but the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified domestic care labor by limiting infrastructures of care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with women caring for disabled others at different stages of life in three regions of Brazil, we advance two interconnected concepts that emerged in our interlocutors’ narratives. We contend that the Covid-19 pandemic has engendered a chronification of home-making, which intensified a long-standing pattern of unequally gendered labor in maintaining arrangements of spaces, people, and things. In the context of the progressive loss of social safety nets and deepening social inequality, this chronicified process of home-making also gives rise to dis/abling care—care that simultaneously enables others and disables caregivers. Our work demonstrates how the pandemic is re-entrenching historical inequalities in Brazil and how disability is produced in pandemic times.

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“…Many people faced financial crisis due to reduced income (Ghimire, 2020), lack of steady source of income, and sufficient savings (Pant & Subedi, 2020). The impact was even more severe to the vulnerable population like wage laborers and female headed households (Subedi, 2020), persons with disabilities (Thompson & Rohwerder, 2023), and those DOI: https://doi. org/10.3126/jsp.v3i01.56779 engaged in informal jobs and small and medium enterprises (Spotlight, 2020).…”

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“…Most of the safety net programmes related to Covid 19 were concentrated on urban areas and cities (Adhikari et al, 2021). Consequently, it forced the people to face food insecurity (Ghimire, 2020) and difficulties in accessing health facilities (Thompson & Rohwerder, 2023).…”

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Impact of Covid-19 on Social Security Allowance Beneficiaries’ Families in Nepal

Dangal,

Acharya

2023

J. Social Protection

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This study illustrates the impact of the Corona Virus Disease (Covid-19) pandemic on beneficiaries of social security allowance following the adoption of preventive measures like message alerts, imposition of lockdown, restriction in movement, and social distancing. The study covers social security allowance beneficiaries of ten local levels from different parts of Nepal. Telephone survey was conducted with the representative sample population which was randomly selected from the social security allowance beneficiaries ‘list. Findings show that the majority of respondents had received messages related to Covid-19, and half of the population had knowledge of where to approach in case of health emergency. The income of many households declined due to loss of jobs during the lockdown. About half of the population had received small relief support from the local government and humanitarian agencies. The food stock was low due to lack of sufficient money to purchase and high inflation rate. The social security allowance payment was delayed and one fourth of the beneficiaries were uncertain about the next payment. In overall, the social security allowance beneficiaries including their family members, suffered during the Covid-19 and were at risk of food insecurity.

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Spaces of Exclusion and Neglect: The Impact of COVID-19 on People With Disabilities in Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, and Uganda

Cited by 3 publications

References 32 publications

Disability, Religion, and Gender: Exploring Experiences of Exclusion in India Through an Intersectional Lens

Disability, Religion, and Gender: Exploring Experiences of Exclusion in India Through an Intersectional Lens

The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces

Impact of Covid-19 on Social Security Allowance Beneficiaries’ Families in Nepal

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