GEN-MIGRA: Gender, mobilities and migration during and post COVID-19 pandemic - vulnerability, resilience and renewal

GEN-MIGRA：COVID-19 大流行期间和之后的性别、流动性和移民 - 脆弱性、复原力和更新

• 批准号: ES/X001210/1
• 负责人: Daniela Sime
• 金额: $ 31.98万
• 依托单位: University of Strathclyde
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX001210%2F1
• 关键词: GEN; MIGRA; Gender; mobilities; migration

The COVID-19 pandemic has represented a major global health challenge with serious economic, social and consequences for migrants and their families transnationally. For many migrants, international mobility is an adaptive response to social risks and inequalities and existing evidence shows that women in particular have been significantly impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Migrant women are often engaged in essential sectors of the labour market that were hardest hit, such as healthcare, agriculture and the food industry, which are often low paid and precarious. Women migrants have had their mobility restricted and this has posed additional challenges to their care roles, safety and well-being. An additional layer of vulnerability for women migrants has been added by gender-based discrimination and violence, including in the context of the Ukraine war. Lockdowns, quarantines as border closures and increasing police control have provided contexts for increased violence and exploitation, especially for those with insecure legal status or limited access to resources or those forced to move. GEN-MIGRA is an interdisciplinary, ground-breaking project that will transform our knowledge about the processes of gendered international mobilities and the increasing inequalities and vulnerabilities created by the pandemic, and more recently war in Europe, as well as identify global solutions for recovery. It will work across several countries, mainly Brazil, UK, Germany and Poland, to explore how women involved in international and internal mobilities have faced gendered vulnerabilities resulting from the pandemic. The project aims to foster new transnational understandings of how to overcome the effects of structural inequalities in times of crisis by adopting an intersectional, comparative, transnational approach. It will theorize the interface between vulnerabilities and migrant women's agency in resource mobilization and help us understand the effects of national policy responses on this group. GEN-MIGRA will also work with policy makers, migrants' groups and the general public, aiming to increase political and public awareness on the situation of migrant women and their social protection needs. Based on ground-breaking research with women engaged in international mobilities and their community and kinship networks, the project will identify evidence-informed solutions to facilitate the availability and accessibility of gender-responsive policy interventions and social protection schemes for migrant women and their families.This project will adopt a transnational and comparative approach in order to explore how the global nature of the pandemic has impacted transnational patterns of mobility for women migrants, in the context of varied national responses to the crisis. The analytical approach adopted focuses on the multiple vulnerabilities, the agency and resources that migrant women have mobilised through community based networks, in order to navigate situations of crisis. Our aim is to explore how migrant women have produced movements of resistance and renewal, changing mobility decisions, strategising and repositioning themselves in the labour market and the implications of all these decisions for family life. We will explore this through a transnational, ethnographic analysis of specific situations in at least four countries with diverse positions regarding social protection, to acquire empirically grounded and theoretically driven knowledge on the impact of national policies that have had a varied outcome for migrants' social protection, including tangible and intangible resources that have helped migrant women to deal with the new social risks they have faced. Data will include in-depth interviews with women and their children and other family members left behind, focus groups, interviews with stakeholders, analysis of existing policy and datasets on migration trends and existing surveys.

COVID-19大流行是一项重大的全球健康挑战，对跨国移民及其家人造成严重的经济、社会和后果。对许多移民来说，国际流动是对社会风险和不平等的适应性反应，现有证据表明，妇女尤其受到COVID-19危机的严重影响。移徙妇女往往从事受打击最严重的劳动力市场的重要部门，如医疗保健、农业和食品工业，这些部门往往工资低，不稳定。妇女移徙者的行动受到限制，这对她们的照料作用、安全和福祉构成了更多挑战。基于性别的歧视和暴力，包括在乌克兰战争中的歧视和暴力，使移徙妇女更加脆弱。封锁、封锁边境等非法活动以及警察控制的加强，为暴力和剥削的增加提供了环境，特别是对那些法律的地位不安全或获得资源的机会有限或被迫迁移的人。GEN-MIGRA是一个跨学科的突破性项目，它将改变我们对性别国际流动过程以及流行病和最近欧洲战争造成的日益严重的不平等和脆弱性的认识，并确定全球复苏解决方案。它将在几个国家开展工作，主要是巴西、联合王国、德国和波兰，探讨参与国际和国内流动的妇女如何面临这一流行病造成的性别脆弱性。该项目旨在通过采取跨部门、比较和跨国办法，促进对如何克服危机时期结构性不平等影响的新的跨国理解。它将使脆弱性与移徙妇女在调动资源方面的作用之间的联系理论化，并帮助我们了解国家政策对这一群体的影响。GEN-MIGRA还将与决策者、移民团体和公众合作，旨在提高政治和公众对移民妇女状况及其社会保障需求的认识。根据对从事国际流动的妇女及其社区和亲属网络的开创性研究，该项目将确定循证解决办法，以促进提供和获取性别平等信息，本项目将采取跨国和比较办法，以探讨这一流行病的全球性质如何影响在各国对危机采取不同对策的背景下，妇女移徙者的跨国流动模式。所采用的分析方法侧重于多重脆弱性、移民妇女通过社区网络调动的机构和资源，以应对危机局势。我们的目标是探索移民妇女如何产生抵抗和更新运动、改变流动决定、在劳动力市场制定战略和重新定位自己，以及所有这些决定对家庭生活的影响。我们将通过对至少四个在社会保障方面立场不同的国家的具体情况进行跨国人种学分析来探讨这一点，以获得有经验依据和理论驱动的知识，了解对移徙者的社会保障产生不同结果的国家政策的影响，包括帮助移徙妇女应对其面临的新的社会风险的有形和无形资源。数据将包括对留守妇女及其子女和其他家庭成员的深入访谈、重点小组、对利益攸关方的访谈、对现有政策的分析、关于移徙趋势的数据集和现有调查。