Cultivated invisibility and migrants’ experiences of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic


Dr Charlotte Sanders | Dr Simon Stewart
Location: United Kingdom
Year Published: 2024

This article examines the UK’s Everyone In scheme, which temporarily housed homeless individuals during the pandemic, highlighting its complex impact on migrants. While offering some life-changing support, the scheme also exposed deeper inequalities, where migrants navigate a hostile environment through “cultivated invisibility”



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