Contents

pp v-viii

List of Figures and Tables

pp ix-x

Notes on Contributors

pp xi-xvi

Acknowledgments

pp xvii-xvii

Preface to All Four Volumes of Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities

pp xviii-xxiv

One - Introduction

pp 1-18

Part I - Working Practices

pp 19-20

Two - Street Vendor Struggles: Maintaining a Livelihood Through the COVID-19 Lockdown in Hanoi, Vietnam

pp 21-30

Three - The Man and the Scooter: How the Low-Income Worker Helps Save a Locked-Down City

pp 31-40

Four - The Hidden Inequities and Divisions among Workers in the US: The Domestic Workers’ Workforce as Non-Essential Workers

pp 41-50

Five - Reflections of Living ‘Hand-to-Mouth’ among ‘Hustlers’ During COVID-19: Insights on the Realities of Poverty in Jamaica

pp 51-60

Six - Looking at Urban Inequalities Regarding Different Jobs in the Age of COVID-19: Who Stayed at Home, Who Did Not?

pp 61-70

Part II - Life During Lockdown

pp 71-72

Seven - Ageist Transport Infrastructures: Rethinking Public Transport amid COVID-19 Lockdowns in India

pp 73-82

Eight - The Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Small Cities of the Global South: A Case Study of Noapara in Bangladesh

pp 83-92

Nine - How Governments’ Response to the Pandemic Exacerbate Gender Inequalities in Belarus and Ukraine: Comparative Analysis of Minsk and Kyiv Cases

pp 93-104

Ten - Infrastructure Inequality and Privileged Capacity to Transform Everyday Life in COVID-19 South Africa

pp 105-116

Eleven - Under Quarantine in a City Project: Stories of Fear, Family, Food, and Community

pp 117-128

Twelve - The Impacts of Socio-Spatial Inequity: COVID-19 in São Paulo

pp 129-140

Part III - Migration, Migrants, and Refugees

pp 141-142

Thirteen - Liminality, Gender, and Ethnic Dynamics in Urban Space: COVID-19 and its Consequences for Young Female Migrants (YFM) in Dhaka

pp 143-154

Fourteen - Spatial Inequality and Colonial Palimpsest in Kuala Lumpur

pp 155-164

Fifteen - The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Travails of Rohingya Refugees in the Largest Bangladeshi Refugee Camp

pp 165-174

Sixteen - Singapore’s Pandemic Governance and Deepening Marginalization of Migrant Workmen

pp 175-184

Part IV - Age, Race, Gender, and Ability

pp 185-186

Seventeen - Experiential Equity: An Environmental Neuroscientific Lens for Disparities in Urban Stress

pp 187-196

Eighteen - What is the Relationship between COVID-19 and the Movement to ‘Defund the Police’?

pp 197-208

Nineteen - Following the Voices of Older Adults During the COVID-19 Crisis: Perspectives from the Netherlands

pp 209-222

Twenty - The Role of Social Infrastructures for Trans People During the COVID-19 Pandemic

pp 223-234