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Religious Marginality, Covid-19, and Redress of Targeting and Inequalities

Category: Publication By: Jaffer Mirza & Mariz Tadros & Maryam Kanwer Posted on: March 25, 2021

This article by Mariz Tadros, Maryam Kanwer and Jaffer Mirza, interrogates whether we should consider ‘religious marginality’ as a qualifier much like the exploration of how gender, ethnicity, and class inequalities are explored when examining Covid-19-related vulnerabilities and their implications for building back better.

Drawing on a case study of Pakistan as well as evidence from India, Uganda, and Iraq, this article explores the accentuation of vulnerabilities in Pakistan and how different religious minorities experience the impact of the interplay of class, caste, ethnicity, and religious marginality.

The authors argues that where religious minorities exist in contexts where the broader political and societal policy is one of religious ‘othering’ and where religious marginality intersects with socioeconomic exclusion, they experience particular forms of vulnerability associated directly or indirectly with Covid-19 consequences that are acute and dire in impact. Building back better for religiously inclusive societies will require both broad-based as well as more specific redress of inequalities.

The article was published as part of the IDS Bulletin journal entitled ‘Building a Better World: The Crisis and Opportunity of Covid-19‘. You can download the article from the IDS Bulletin website.

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