TY  - JOUR
A1  - Böhme, Claudia
A1  - Schmitz, Anett
T1  - Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives
T2  - Comparative Migration Studies
N2  - The global spread of the coronavirus pandemic has particularly dramatic consequences for the lives of migrants and refugees living in already marginalised and restricted conditions, whose ongoing crisis is at risk of being overlooked. But refugees are not only extremely vulnerable and at risk of infection, as several reports show, quickly develop their own protection measures like the production of hygienic products, the publication of their situation and calls for action and help. Therefore, this paper aims to research the effects of the coronavirus crisis on refugees in camp settings with a special ethnographic focus on how refugees actively deal with this crisis and if they, through already developed resilience, are capable of adapting to the restrictions as well as inventing strategies to cope with the difficult situation. To account for the variety of refugee camps as well as the different living conditions due to their locality, history and national asylum politics, we will look at three different locations, namely refugee asylum homes in Germany, hotspots on the Greek islands as well as one refugee camp in Kenya. The main questions will be how, under structurally and institutionally framed conditions of power and victimisation in refugee camps, forms of agency are established, made possible or limited. The goal is to show which strategies refugees apply to cope with the enhanced restrictions and exclusion, how they act to protect themselves and others from the virus and how they present and reflect their situation during the coronavirus pandemic. Finally, this discussion offers a new perspective to consider refugees not only as vulnerable victims, but also as actively engaged individuals.
KW  - Refugee camps
KW  - Covid-19
KW  - Germany
KW  - Lesvos
KW  - Moria
KW  - Kakuma
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Agency
KW  - Coping strategies
KW  - Social Media
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Griechenland
KW  - Kenia
KW  - Asylbewerberunterkunft
KW  - COVID-19
KW  - Pandemie
KW  - Anpassung
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://ubt.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2015
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:385-1-20155
VL  - 2022
IS  - Band 10 (2022)
PB  - Springer Nature
CY  - London
ER  -