Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic : communication, inequality, and transformation / Satveer Kaur-Gill, Mohan Dutta, editors.
Kaur-Gill, Satveer.; Dutta, Mohan J.
2023
RA644.C67
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Title Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic : communication, inequality, and transformation / Satveer Kaur-Gill, Mohan Dutta, editors.
ISBN 9789811973840 (electronic bk.)
9811973849 (electronic bk.)
9789811973833
9811973830
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7384-0
Imprint Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (243 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-981-19-7384-0 doi
Call Number RA644.C67
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.19624144
Summary This book looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants globally who bear disproportionate burdens of health disparities. Centering the voices of migrants as anchors for theorizing health, the chapters adopt an array of decolonizing and interventionist methodologies that offer conceptual communicative resources for re-organizing economics, politics, culture, and society in logics of care. Each chapter focuses on the health of migrants during the pandemic, highlighting the role of communication in amplifying and solving the health crisis experienced by migrants. The chapters draw together various communicative resources and practices tied to migrant negotiations of precarity and exclusion. Health is situated amidst the forces of authoritarianism, disinformation, hate, and exploitation targeting migrant bodies. The book builds a narrative archive witnessing this fundamental geopolitical rupture in the 21st century, documenting the violence built into the zeitgeist of labor exploitation amidst neoliberal transformations, situating health with the extractive and exploitative forms of organizing migrant labor. The book is essential reading for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses for scholars studying critical and global health, development, and participatory communication, migration, globalization, international and intercultural communication interested in the questions of precarity and marginality of health during pandemics. Satveer Kaur-Gill is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College. Broadly, Satveer studies the role communication plays in bridging health equity for populations facing health disparities. Mohan J Dutta is Dean's Chair Professor and Director of the Center for Culture-centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) at Massey University. He teaches and conducts research in international health communication, critical cultural theory, poverty in healthcare, health activism in globalization politics, indigenous cosmologies of health, subaltern studies and dialogue, and public policy and participatory social change. Currently, Mohan sits on the editorial board of seven journals. He is the Editor of the Journal of Applied Communication Research and the Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Health Communication.
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Introduction
Bibliography, etc. Note References -- 4 Listening for Erasures as Method in Making Sense of Health Disparities: Culture-Centered Constructions of Health Among Refugees -- COVID-19 and Refugees at the Margins -- Culture Centered Approach -- Method -- Results -- Communicative Gaps -- Structural Inequalities -- Communicative Agency -- Discussion -- References -- 5 The Implications of Being Thrice-Marginalized: Work Migrants in India During the Coronavirus Lockdown -- The Health Consequences of Distress Migration -- Stresses of the Pandemic -- The Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) -- Power Dimensions -- Method
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Intro
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 The COVID-19 Pandemic and Precarious Migrants: An Outbreak of Inequality
The Relationship Between Outbreak and Communicative Inequalities
Precarities as Ecological
Health Information
Digital Spaces
Vaccines
Health Equity and Precarious Migrants
References
2 The Role of Contemporary Neoliberal Government Policies in the Erosion of Migrant Labor Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Examination of Executive, Legislative and Judicial Trends in India and the United States

Caste Inequities and the Informal Labor Market in India
Migrant Workers' Health Rights During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Undocumented Labor in the United States
Systemic Barriers to Undocumented Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Discussion
References
3 The COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on the Health of Rohingya Refugees
COVID-19 and Refugee Health
Rohingya Health
Culture-Centered Approach
Method
Findings
Struggles with Food
Struggles Accessing Masks and Hand Sanitizers
Scarcity of Rohingya Interpreters for Communication
Long Waiting Time
Discussion

Voices of Distressed Migrants
Recruitment
Data Gathering
Analysis
Findings
When Income Stops and Loans Run Out
Home Is Health, and the Stigma of the Infected City
Healthier at Home
Home to Stigma
Being Triple-Marginalized
References
6 Extreme (Im)mobility and Mental Health Inequalities: Migrant Construction Workers in Singapore During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Pandemic Measures for Migrant Construction Workers
Communicative Inequality and the Culture-Centered Approach
Extreme (Im)mobility
Mental Health Interventions
Living Conditions

Family and Precarity
Agentic Community Building
Ecological Precarities as Health Violence
References
7 Indonesian Domestic Workers in Malaysia During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Introduction
Women, Patriarchal System and Gender-Based Inequality
Foreign Domestic Workers
Covid-19 Challenges and Struggles Experienced by Domestic Workers
Dysfunctional Migration Governance
Recognition of Women and Identity of 'Domestic Work'
Domestic Work as Cultural Threat?
Conclusion
References
8 Conducting Digital Ethnography with Precarious Migrant Workers in a Pandemic

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