期刊
JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES
卷 47, 期 13, 页码 3097-3113出版社
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1635002
关键词
Vulnerability; refugee and migrant women; third sector; women's sector
资金
- School of Health and Education, Middlesex University
The paper examines how London-based third sector practitioners engage with vulnerability in their work with refugee and migrant women during pregnancy and in the post-natal period. Despite using strategies based on essentialized vulnerability, practitioners are aware of the broader context of women's lives and how government policies and structural disadvantages contribute to shaping their vulnerability. This understanding aligns with theoretical approaches that view vulnerability as an inherent aspect of human existence and enables practitioners to address the specific factors producing women's vulnerability.
The paper explores London-based third sector practitioners' engagement with vulnerability in their work with refugee and migrant women during pregnancy and in the post-natal period. Practitioners draw on notions of vulnerability that signal weakness and passivity as a strategy, which enables them to secure resources for the women they support as well as to sustain their own organisational existence in a third sector landscape that has been transformed by a range of neoliberal measures. Despite this invoking of essentialised vulnerability practitioners possess an awareness of how the broader context of women's lives, including government policies and structural disadvantage, acts to shape their vulnerability. The paper argues practitioners' contextual understanding of refuge and migrant women's vulnerability resonates with theoretical approaches that conceptualise vulnerability as an ontological characteristic of human existence. Strategic use of essentialised vulnerability is central to accessing resources, while an ontological understanding of vulnerability as a universal potential activated by socially mediated unequal power relations enables practitioners to address the specific factors that are producing women's vulnerability to harm. Crucially, this includes challenging the effects of the UK government's anti-immigrant 'hostile environment' policy and neoliberal austerity measures.
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