The COVID-19 Crisis and the "Shadow Pandemic" : Gender-based Violence Experienced by Migrant Women in the UK
Käkelä, Emmaleena and Sime, Daniela (2023) The COVID-19 Crisis and the "Shadow Pandemic" : Gender-based Violence Experienced by Migrant Women in the UK. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
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Abstract
Evidence has shown that the pandemic restrictions have increased rates of domestic violence globally (Loureiro, 2021). The COVID-19 crisis has shone light to the gender-based violence (GBV) crisis which pre-dates the pandemic, leading this to be labelled as the “shadow pandemic” (Dawsey-Hewitt et al., 2021). In the UK, the police recorded an increase in domestic abuse-related crimes during 2020. This follows a gradual increase in domestic abuse offences over recent years (ONS, 2020). Recent research and reports from the domestic abuse sector suggest that the pandemic has had considerable consequences to women’s safety. The increased demands faced by support services reflect the increase in the severity of the abuse suffered by women and barriers to help-seeking exacerbated by the pandemic (ONS, 2020; Walklate, Godfrey and Richardson, 2022). This briefing analyses the extent to which these impacts have been disproportionately felt by migrant women, whose vulnerabilities and help-seeking have been constrained by state responses to immigration and domestic violence.
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Käkelä, Emmaleena and Sime, Daniela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3207-5456;-
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Item type: Report ID code: 85846 Dates: DateEvent20 June 2023PublishedNotes: Published as GEN-MIGRA 'United Kingdom: Policy Briefing 3'. Subjects: Social Sciences > Social pathology. Social and public welfare > Social service. Social work. Charity organization and practice Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Social Work and Social Policy Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 20 Jun 2023 07:36 Last modified: 21 Dec 2024 01:31 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/85846