The purpose of this thesis is to understand the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the right tohealth for female refugees living in Athens. The paper is based on data derived from semi-structured interviews with female refugees and aid-workers working on the field in Athens. The interviews are complemented with a field study as a participant observer in a small school run by an NGO in Athens. The theoretical framework for the analysis of the empirical data is social exclusion.The conclusion is that the covid-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on the right to health for female refugees living in Athens. Covid-19 restrictions and regulations are keeping people without papers out from the health care system and making it harder for approved refugees to get health care. Refugee women are experiencing extra difficulties through the restrictions, due to intersectional discrimination of gender and race of the host society and through traditional gender roles within their culture. Refugees access to social networks has decreased, especially the possibility to get help from NGO:s that are dependent on private funding, which has decreased incident to the pandemic. NGO:s also had to shut down the social parts of their work due to lockdowns. This has increased social isolation and made mental health problems and poverty worse. Some NGO: s has restrictions about vaccines or negative covid-tests which have an impact on refugees without possibility to get vaccinated or tested. The pandemic has also increased racism towards refugees and enhanced the possibilities of abuse of power from the police.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:ths-1677 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Perkins, Yvonne |
| Publisher | Enskilda Högskolan Stockholm, Avdelningen för mänskliga rättigheter och demokrati, 660624-7846 |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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