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CHAPTER D-7
Spread of Anti-Asian Racism:
Prevention and Critical Race Analysis
in Pandemic Planning
Jamie Chai Yun Liew*
Abstract
The racist discourse and attacks on Asian Canadians in the COVID-19
outbreak has illustrated the differentiated risks, vulnerability, and
marginalization of racialized persons. A race-based analysis is essen-
tial in public health policy. First, public health responses may rein-
force long-standing racist narratives of how a virus is transmitted.
Second, the “viralizing” of persons may lead to unfair blame on a
racialized community for an outbreak, taking focus away from struc-
tural problems in particular environments, as for example in the
case of Filipino migrant workers in meat-packing plants who have
no control over their working conditions. Finally, there is now data
showing that, accounting for other factors, some racialized groups of
people, including Black and South Asian people, may be succumbing
to COVID-19 more than others. Focusing on the partial border closure
as a case study, this chapter looks at how historical and contempo-
rary selective but simultaneous inclusion and exclusion at the bor-
der has constructed social ideas of foreigners. The border measures
reflect an ongoing tension to admit cheap labour for essential services
while pacifying public fear of the Asian person as a vector of the virus.
Critical race analysis should be employed when evaluating public
* Immigration and refugee lawyer and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law,
University of Ottawa.
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International