Syrian refugee labour and food insecurity in Middle Eastern agriculture during the early COVID‐19 pandemic

Zuntz, Ann-Christin; KLEMA, Mackenzie; Abdullateef, Shaher; Mazeri, Stella; ALNABOLSI, Salim Faisal; ALFADEL, Abdulellah; ABI‐HABIB, Joy; Azar, Maria; Calia, Clara; Burke, James; Grant, Liz; Boden, Lisa

doi:10.1111/ilr.12348

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“…( Table 2 ). Thirty-five studies mainly or totally used the term “food insecurity” [ 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 31 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 ], six used “food security” [ 25 , 30 , 32 , 63 , 64 , 65 ], and five used both [ 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ].…”

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“…Among the 46 studies included in this scoping review [ 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 ], half of them were conducted in America [ 28 , 29 , 31 , 33 , 40 , 42 , 43 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 <...…”

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“…Ten studies did not specify the region of origin of the migrant population [ 30 , 37 , 46 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 56 , 58 , 59 ]. Seven studies presented a combination of migrants from different regions (including non-EU European countries) [ 29 , 34 , 35 , 55 , 57 , 60 , 68 ] ( Figure 3 ).…”

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Food Insecurity among International Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

Ahmed

Benavente

Díaz

2023

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The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the measures imposed to control it have impacted food security globally, particularly among vulnerable populations. Food insecurity, in turn, has repercussions on health, exacerbating pre-existing inequalities. This scoping review maps the literature describing associations between the COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity among migrants, with a particular view toward health. A total of 909 papers were extracted through four electronic databases, and 46 studies were included. The migrant populations described originated mainly from Latin America (11/46) and were located in North America (21/46). Most studies included refugees and asylum seekers (20/46). The main challenges described were financial hardship (28/46), the effect of migrants’ documentation status on using public food aid (13/46), and the suspension of or reduction in humanitarian assistance due to the economic recession (7/46). The impact of food insecurity on migrants’ mental and physical health was described in 26 of the 46 studies. Authorities in all destination countries should focus their attention and efforts into ensuring nutrition security for migrants in a holistic way, including their economic and legal integration, to be better prepared for health crises in the future.

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Food Insecurity among International Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

Ahmed

Benavente

Díaz

2023

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“…People in crisis-affected countries like Lebanon and Syria, has been hit the most, especially refugees. The sudden price hikes has trapped refugees in deep levels of poverty (Zuntz et al, 2022). Another recent study by de Paulo Farias and de Araújo (2020) examines whether Brazilian households were affected by the increase in the prices of fruits and vegetables during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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COVID-19 and Food Security among Families with Young Children in the MENA Region

Boutros

Fakih

2023

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This study identifies how food consumption has been affected in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak among families with young children. We use the Economic Research Forum COVID-19 MENA Monitor Survey, a cross-sectional dataset covering countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, to empirically assess whether the pandemic positively or negatively impacts households’ food consumption. We use the Propensity Score Matching Technique to estimate the causal effect of three main independent variables (i.e., income, mobility restrictions, and the increase in food prices) on food consumption. Results suggest that all main variables cause food reduction. In a further investigation, we perform our regression by country and occupation. Our findings indicate a drop in food consumption in all studied countries, with Tunisia being the most affected among all studied countries. Regarding the occupation, we find that employees followed by farmers are more affected than managers during the pandemic. The paper offers some recommendations for policymakers to mitigate the ongoing crisis.

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“…This From the Field was a research project launched by the Network to explore the impact of Covid-19 on the lives, livelihoods, and wellbeing of Syrians living in Lebanon, Iraqi Kurdistan, Jordan, Syria and Turkey using bespoke remote ethnographic approaches 33 . Data was collected between April and September 2020, and explored the linkages between the psychosocial wellbeing of respondents and food security in a population facing enormous pressures and diminishing supports in their day-to-day lives.…”

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Maximising impactful and locally relevant mental health research: ethical considerations

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Chakrabarti²,

Sarabwe³

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Background: Achieving ethical and meaningful mental health research in diverse global settings requires approaches to research design, conduct, and dissemination that prioritise a contextualised approach to impact and local relevance. Method: Through three case studies presented at the 2021 Global Forum on Bioethics in Research meeting on the ethical issues arising in research with people with mental health conditions, we consider the nuances to achieving ethical and meaningful mental health research in three diverse settings. The case studies include research with refugees Rwanda and Uganda; a neurodevelopmental cohort study in a low resource setting in India, and research with Syrian refugees displaced across the Middle East. Results: Key considerations highlighted across the case studies include how mental health is understood and experienced in diverse contexts to ensure respectful engagement with communities, and to inform the selection of contextually-appropriate and feasible research methods and tools to achieve meaningful data collection. Related to this is a need to consider how communities understand and engage with research to avoid therapeutic misconception, exacerbating stigma, or creating undue inducement for research participation, whilst also ensuring meaningful benefit for research participation. Central to achieving these is the meaningful integration of the views and perspectives of local stakeholders to inform research design, conduct, and legacy. The case studies foreground the potential tensions between meeting local community needs through the implementation of an intervention, and attaining standards of scientific rigor in research design and methods; and between adherence to procedural ethical requirements such as ethical review and documenting informed consent, and ethical practice through attention to the needs of the local research team. Conclusions: We conclude that engagement with how to achieve local relevance and social, practice, and academic impact offer productive ways for researchers to promote ethical research that prioritises values of solidarity, inclusion, and mutual respect.

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Syrian refugee labour and food insecurity in Middle Eastern agriculture during the early COVID‐19 pandemic

Cited by 8 publications

References 53 publications

Food Insecurity among International Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

Food Insecurity among International Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review

COVID-19 and Food Security among Families with Young Children in the MENA Region

Maximising impactful and locally relevant mental health research: ethical considerations

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