Intersecting marginalities: International students' struggles for “survival” in COVID‐19
基于对澳大利亚年轻女性国际学生酒店业工作的研究，揭示疫情如何加剧性别、移民身份和劳动不稳定性等已有脆弱性，导致经济困境、剥削和歧视，威胁身心健康。
Abstract This article draws on examples from a study of the impacts of coronavirus disease‐2019 (COVID‐19) shutdowns on young hospitality workers in Melbourne and Newcastle, Australia, in May and June of 2020. We explore how existing vulnerabilities related to gender, migrant status, and precarious hospitality work were intensified by the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic for young women international students in our study. The international students we discuss were exposed to extreme financial precarity, which rendered them vulnerable to other gendered forms of risk and exploitation, including taking part in experimental drug trails and having to take off‐the‐books cleaning work for a “creep.” These students described feeling “unwelcome” or “unwanted” through open racial discrimination, or comments from the Prime Minister that international students should “go home.” We take an embodied intersectional approach to detail how existing conditions of marginality such as gender, migrant status, economic vulnerability, and precarious conditions of hospitality labor are compounded in the pandemic and exacerbate inequalities, manifesting in increased threats to physical safety and wellbeing.