@article{ref1,
title="A community psychology for migrant justice: critically examining border violence and resistance during the COVID-19 syndemic",
journal="American journal of community psychology",
year="2023",
author="Esposito, Francesca and Rebelo, Dora and Olanrewaju, Moshood and Vine, Megan and Fernandes-Jesus, Maria and Bodden, Debi and Kalokoh, Aminata and Olson, Bradley",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="This article explores the magnifying lenses of the COVID-19 syndemic to highlight how people racialized as migrants and refugees have been-and continue to be-disproportionally harmed. We use empirical evidence collected in our scholarly/activist work in Europe, Africa, South Asia, and the United States to examine migrant injustice as being produced by a combination of power structures and relations working to maintain colonial global orders and inequalities. This is what has been defined as &quot;border imperialism.&quot; Our data, complemented by evidence from transnational solidarity groups, show that border imperialism has further intersected with the hygienic-sanitary logics of social control at play during the COVID-19 period. This intersection has resulted in increasingly coercive methods of restraining people on the move, as well as in increased-and new-forms of degradation of their lives, that is, an overall multiplication of border violences. At the same time, however, COVID-19 has provided a unique opportunity for grassroot solidarity initiatives and resistance led by people on the move to be amplified and extended. We conclude by emphasizing the need for community psychologists to take a more vigorous stance against oppressive border imperialist regimes and the related forms of violence they re/enact.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0091-0562",
doi="10.1002/ajcp.12669",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12669"
}