The Racial Justice Network have published a report highlighting the resilience and resourcefulness of diaspora communities during the pandemic.
This work addresses the “systemic underpinnings of the pandemic’s impact on migrant communities and captures lived experience, as a form of agency for influencing structural change.”
This report was funded by Queen Mary University London’s collaboration and strategic impact fund for the project “‘Digital Sanctuary’: Exploring expansion of biometric data since COVID-19 and impacts on urban residents with complex migration status”.
The Racial Justice Network also collaborated with University of Huddersfield’s School of Applied Sciences in order to financially recompense participants and their communities.
Key topics of the report
Laws, Legislation and Policies Entanglements
The Effects of Colonial Legacies During a Pandemic
Isolation and Mental Health Including Retraumatisation
Lack of Engagement and Due Care From Authorities and Government Institutions
Resisting and Surviving as a Community
The Racial Justice Network have produced a video of the key findings of the report and a video of their recommendations for improving the lives of diaspora communities, both of which you can view below:
