Vulnerability of migrant women during COVID-19
Citation: Trentin M, Rubini E, Bahattab A, et al. Vulnerability of migrant women during disasters: a scoping review of the literature. International Journal for Equity in Health. 2023;22:135.
Language: Abstract and full text available in EN.
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Funding sources: The authors reported that they had no external funding for this review.
What is this? In this scoping review, the authors searched without restrictions for peer-reviewed articles about the vulnerability of migrant women during disasters. They searched in December 2021 and found 14 articles from Australia (2), Canada (2), USA (2), Cuba (1), Italy (1), Kenya (1), Lebanon (1), Peru (1), South Africa (1), Turkey (1), and one multi-national study from Australia, Sweden, Turkey, Tunisia, and the UK.
What was found: All of the studies focused on migrant women during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors found that migrant women were adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in many ways, including legal status, poverty, worsening mental and physical health, poor access to care, fraud, gender-based violence, education, and unmet religious needs.
Implications: The authors of the review stated that their findings emphasise the importance of addressing social determinants of health when developing inclusive disaster preparedness interventions.
Other considerations: The authors of the review discussed their findings in the context of place of residence, ethnicity, culture, language, occupation, gender, sex, religion, education, socioeconomic status, and social capital.
This summary was prepared by Monica Trentin, checked by Sneha Bhadti, and finalized by William Summerskill.