Coronavirus and challenges to refugees’ resilience in Weimar, Germany
Coronavirus and challenges to refugees’ resilience in Weimar, Germany

Summary/Abstract: Corona came and hit the world while it’s already been undergoing several other challenges and problems to its resilience and sustainability. These global North and South crises have heavily affected people experiencing poverty and refugees. This research investigates the challenges to refugees’ resilience in Weimar, Germany. To conceptualise these challenges,we conducted 12 interviews with refugees and another 4 with relief workers in Weimar,Germany, between June-August 2020. The displaced reported many challenges: language and integration, bureaucracy, health and personnel, housing and refugee status, and social support obstacles. As these challenges are interrelated, their impacts on each individual and family have been different, and thus the level of refugees’ resilience has varied

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