RESISTIRE D4.2 Building back better? Qualitative indications of inequalities produced by Covid-19 and its policy and societal responses. Second cycle summary report

• Main Authors: Sandström, Lina, Axelsson, Tobias K., Callerstig, Anne-Charlott, Strid, Sofia, Bobek, Alicja
• Other Authors: Detsis, Emmanuel
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: COVID-19; intersectionality; gender+; qualitative analysis; qualitative methodology; LGBTQI+; vulnerabilities; policy responses; Iceland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6517795; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6517795

The aim of this report is to analyse the gender+ inequality dimensions and the impacts that policies and societal responses implemented in Europe as a response to COVID-19 have had on people, to give voice to those people and groups who may not have been heard in the public debate, and to identify enablers and obstacles towards recovery, with a specific focus on four domains: gender-based violence, education, work and care; and with a specific focus on vulnerable groups, including: LGBTQI+, migrants, young people. The report is based on three methods of qualitative data collection: pan-European workshops, expert interviews and narrative interviews. The material is extensive; all in all it includes 368 individuals, who generously shared their knowledge and experiences as activists and experts in civil society, public authorities and academia, and as individuals with lived experiences during COVID-19 across Europe. The data were collected via three pan-European workshops with inequality experts from civil society representing the voices of specific target groups, public authority experts and academics (n=38); semi-structured interviews with predominantly public authority experts and academics (n=24); and via individual narrative interviews with people from across Europe (n=306) and analysed using thematic analysis. The workshops addressed the domains gender-based violence, work, and education. The semi-structured interviews collected data from the national level in the same domains, as well as the care domain. The narrative interviews were conducted and analysed by the consortium partners and a network of 21 national researchers covering the EU27, Iceland, Serbia, Turkey, and the UK. In line with the theoretical and conceptual approach of RESISTIRÉ, the report builds on an intersectional approach to gender which acknowledges the mutual shaping of multiple complex inequalities. Based on the research agenda produced in the first cycle, the analysis also draws on concepts of unintended consequences, resilience, ...