Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics

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Main author: Akhter, Shahnaz
Other authors: Elias, Juanita
Rai, Shirin M.
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institution SOAS, University of London
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language English
language_search English
topic JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
description This article presents an investigation into the racialized and gendered dynamics of the intensifying crisis in care for older people in the United Kingdom. Deploying a feminist political economy framework, we reveal how the care crisis is an intersectional crisis of social reproduction worsened by both austerity and COVID-19. We do this through an analysis of a small set of interviews with South Asian older women with care needs, conducted during the first period of UK national lockdown in 2020. This was a pilot study, focusing on the challenges faced in accessing formal and informal care during this period of the pandemic. The experiences, fears, and vulnerabilities that came through in the interviews are located within a broader analysis of the racialized care crisis—one that reveals the long-term harms that austerity, including “austerity Islamophobia,” generated for these older women and their families as they struggled to provide and access un/paid care.
format Journal Article
author Akhter, Shahnaz
author_facet Akhter, Shahnaz
Elias, Juanita
Rai, Shirin M.
authorStr Akhter, Shahnaz
author_letter Akhter, Shahnaz
author2 Elias, Juanita
Rai, Shirin M.
author2Str Elias, Juanita
Rai, Shirin M.
title Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics
publisher Oxford University Press
publishDate 2022
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/38307/

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