TY - JOUR
T1 - Covid-19, Migration, and Racism in Australia: Key Challenges and Research Directions
AU - HAW, Ashleigh
AU - FARQUHARSON, Karen
N1 - Funding Information:
This special issue came about through a symposium on Covid-19 and racism at the University of Melbourne in 2022 that was convened by the editors alongside Associate Professor Val Colic-Peisker. We thank Val for her contribution to the symposium as well as all participants. We also thank the School of Social and Political Sciences for its financial support and Renee Delahunty for her administrative and logistical support of the symposium. Finally, we thank the contributors to this special issue and Paula Muraca and Vince Marotta from the Journal of Intercultural Studies for their support in making the special issue happen.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The unique and complex social, health, and economic challenges arising from the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) pandemic have been subject to extensive discussion and deliberation in global scholarship and policy. In Australia, the adverse impacts of the pandemic have been especially pronounced for migrant, refugee, and multicultural communities; many of whom – pandemic or no pandemic – face substantial barriers to accessing essential health, economic and social resources, such as afford able health care, clear and culturally appropriate communication, and opportunities for social connection. For many people in these communities, access to these funda mental supports declined considerably during Covid-19 (Doherty 2020), while burgeoning levels of racism (including race-based discrimination and racialised violence) were reported across the country; particularly in the early stages of the pan demic (Elias et al. 2021, Kamp et al. 2022). The resulting social, health, and economic consequences are well documented in the Australian literature (Doery et al. 2023, Grant et al. 2023, Kamp et al. 2022). Furthermore, both local and global investigations of racism during previous major health crises offer compelling evidence of long-term impacts (Schlabach 2019, Shah 2001, Wenham et al. 2009); highlighting a pressing need to understand (and document) the ramifications of these issues beyond the Covid-19 context.
AB - The unique and complex social, health, and economic challenges arising from the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) pandemic have been subject to extensive discussion and deliberation in global scholarship and policy. In Australia, the adverse impacts of the pandemic have been especially pronounced for migrant, refugee, and multicultural communities; many of whom – pandemic or no pandemic – face substantial barriers to accessing essential health, economic and social resources, such as afford able health care, clear and culturally appropriate communication, and opportunities for social connection. For many people in these communities, access to these funda mental supports declined considerably during Covid-19 (Doherty 2020), while burgeoning levels of racism (including race-based discrimination and racialised violence) were reported across the country; particularly in the early stages of the pan demic (Elias et al. 2021, Kamp et al. 2022). The resulting social, health, and economic consequences are well documented in the Australian literature (Doery et al. 2023, Grant et al. 2023, Kamp et al. 2022). Furthermore, both local and global investigations of racism during previous major health crises offer compelling evidence of long-term impacts (Schlabach 2019, Shah 2001, Wenham et al. 2009); highlighting a pressing need to understand (and document) the ramifications of these issues beyond the Covid-19 context.
KW - Australia
KW - Covid-19
KW - migration
KW - policy
KW - practice
KW - racism
KW - research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85193790318&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/07256868.2024.2350138
DO - 10.1080/07256868.2024.2350138
M3 - Editorial
SN - 0725-6868
VL - 45
SP - 381
EP - 391
JO - Journal of Intercultural Studies
JF - Journal of Intercultural Studies
IS - 3
ER -