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Intersecting vulnerabilities and compounded risks of women asylum seekers working in care during COVID-19 in Ireland
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Date
2024-02-28
Authors
Daly, Felicity
O’Riordan, Jacqui
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Bristol University Press
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Abstract
This article explores findings from a qualitative participatory study with asylum seekers in Ireland employed in the healthcare sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. By extending an intersectional analysis framework, we demonstrate how the vulnerability of care workers living within the international protection accommodation system ‘under the care’ of the state intersects with power exercised by the neoliberal care market and is compounded by global health controls instituted during the pandemic. Participants reveal a lack of autonomy and forms of precarity that were not faced by other care workers, particularly increased risk of exposure to COVID-19 and multiple forms of stigma.
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Care worker , Asylum seeker , COVID-19 , Intersectionality
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Daly, F. and O’Riordan, J. (2024) 'Intersecting vulnerabilities and compounded risks of women asylum seekers working in care during COVID-19 in Ireland', International Journal of Care and Caring. https://doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000029
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© 2024, Bristol University Press. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edited version of an article published in International Journal of Care and Caring. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Daly, F. and O’Riordan, J. (2024) 'Intersecting vulnerabilities and compounded risks of women asylum seekers working in care during COVID-19 in Ireland', International Journal of Care and Caring] is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1332/23978821Y2024D000000029