Rag-Pickers and Their Young Children During COVID-19: Exploring Issues in Parenting and Feasible Social Work Response.

IF 1.4 Q2 SOCIAL WORK
Aishwarya Gautam, Subhasis Bhadra
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Abstract

Strict lockdown measures and the pandemic brought immense risks and misery to those already living on the margins of society before the COVID-19 crisis even hit the world. The present study was conducted with rag-pickers, one of the marginalized groups living in Jaipur city of India. The lives of these marginalized populations became more complicated during the pandemic. Due to movement restrictions during the lockdown, access to primary resources was further reduced - from water and sanitation to food, health, and employment, impacting the care and protection they could provide their young children. Rag-pickers, one of the most marginalized communities that face social stigma, struggled to cope with daily life challenges. Young children in such families suffered alongside their parents when the families could not continue their livelihood and lost all sources of income. This paper aims to deepen the understanding of the impact of COVID-19 on the nurturing care of children below eight years of age living in Jaipur, India, accentuating the human rights violations they face right from birth. Many humanitarian relief measures poured in during the lockdown period distributing free food packets and dry rations to the marginalized families. COVID-19 increased parenting challenges for this community. Protection of these families during the ongoing pandemic as well as future pandemics must become a strategic imperative. The paper enumerates feasible social work responses to the issues rag-pickers and their children confront.

COVID-19期间拾荒者及其幼儿:探索养育问题和可行的社会工作应对。
在疫情爆发之前,严格的封锁措施和疫情给那些已经生活在社会边缘的人带来了巨大的风险和痛苦。本研究的对象是生活在印度斋浦尔市的一个边缘群体——拾荒者。这些边缘人群的生活在大流行期间变得更加复杂。由于封锁期间的行动限制,获得主要资源的机会进一步减少,从水和卫生设施到食物、健康和就业,影响了他们为年幼子女提供的照顾和保护。拾荒者是面临社会耻辱的最边缘化群体之一,他们努力应对日常生活的挑战。当这些家庭无法维持生计并失去所有收入来源时,这些家庭的幼儿与父母一起受苦。本文旨在加深对2019冠状病毒病对生活在印度斋浦尔的8岁以下儿童养育护理的影响的理解,强调他们从出生起就面临的侵犯人权行为。在封锁期间,许多人道主义救济措施涌入,向边缘化家庭分发免费食品包和干粮。COVID-19增加了该社区的育儿挑战。在当前和未来大流行期间保护这些家庭必须成为一项战略要务。本文列举了针对拾荒者及其子女所面临问题的可行的社会工作对策。
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8.30%
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33
期刊介绍: This journal offers an outlet for articles that support social work as a human rights profession. It brings together knowledge about addressing human rights in practice, research, policy, and advocacy as well as teaching about human rights from around the globe. Articles explore the history of social work as a human rights profession; familiarize participants on how to advance human rights using the human rights documents from the United Nations; present the types of monitoring and assessment that takes place internationally and within the U.S.; demonstrate rights-based practice approaches and techniques; and facilitate discussion of the implications of human rights tools and the framework for social work practice.
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