Socially isolated and digitally excluded. A qualitative exploratory study of the lives of Roma teenage mothers during the COVID-19 lockdown

Anca Velicu, Monica Barbovschi and Ileana Rotaru

Technology in Society, 2022, vol. 68, issue C

Abstract: This paper explores the interlinks between multiple layers of exclusion and deprivation of Roma adolescents mothers in the context of COVID-19 pandemic, in order to understand: a) how different types of exclusion (e.g., digital, social, educational) overlap and how are those types of exclusion lived and perceived by teenage mothers; and b) whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic changed existing inequalities in their situation. In our paper, we refer to teenage mothers to describe mothers who gave birth before the age of 18.

Keywords: (Roma) teenage mothers; COVID-19 lockdown; Tacit agency; Relative digital deprivation; Social isolation; Digital divide (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101861

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