SOAS Research Online

A Free Database of the Latest Research by SOAS Academics and PhD Students

[skip to content]

Lingham, Jayanthi Thiyaga, Rai, Shirin and Akhter, Shahnaz (2025) 'Race, gender and class under COVID-19: narratives of care, caring and carers.' European Journal of Politics and Gender. pp. 1-25. (Forthcoming)

[img] Text - Published Version
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY 4.0).

Download (602kB)

Abstract

It has been well documented that the COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses in the UK had discriminatory effects on racially minoritised communities, older people and carers. While separate studies have investigated outcomes for these groups, few have brought them together. This article shares findings from a qualitative study undertaken during the pandemic that investigated impacts on the everyday lives of three racially minoritised groups in the UK: older people and unpaid and paid carers for adults. Situating the data in a wider context and viewed through a feminist lens of everyday political economy, we argue that the pandemic both reflected ongoing crises in and of care and intensified life-making practices of social reproduction. As revealed through narratives of everyday care experiences at the ‘peak’ moment of the pandemic, the crisis was characterised by depletion through care and caring, reinforcing and deepening existing racialised, gendered and class-based hierarchies of inequality.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: care; caring; social reproduction; racism; COVID-19 pandemic; depletion
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Politics & International Studies
ISSN: 25151088
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2025d000000079
SWORD Depositor: JISC Publications Router
Date Deposited: 29 Mar 2025 07:39
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/43687
Funders: Economic and Social Research Council

Altmetric Data

Statistics

Download activity - last 12 monthsShow export options
Downloads since deposit
6 month trend
2Downloads
6 month trend
5Hits
Accesses by country - last 12 monthsShow export options
Accesses by referrer - last 12 monthsShow export options

Repository staff only

Edit Item Edit Item