Refugees tell stories of problems – and unity – in facing the coronavirus
Across the globe, refugees are trying to settle into new surroundings
and are running into new challenges thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
and are running into new challenges thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
But too often news coverage of refugee issues doesn’t include the people’s own voices. We coordinate the Refugees in Towns
project, which is a network of refugee researchers and humanitarian
workers who we train to conduct research and then write about their
experiences in the cities where they live.
We asked members of our network to tell us how the COVID-19 pandemic
was affecting their lives. Here are dispatches from South Africa,
Serbia, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica, Denmark and Jordan, written by our refugee
researchers and aid workers.