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Angaben zum Inhalt: „Introduction: Belgium has noted a significant excess mortality during the first COVID-19 wave. Research in other countries has shown that people with migrant origin are disproportionally affected. Belgium has an ethnically diverse and increasingly ageing population and is therefore particularly apt to study differential mortality by migrant group during this first wave of COVID-19. Data and methods: We used nationwide individually-linked data from the Belgian National Register providing sociodemographic indicators and mortality; and the administrative census of 2011 providing indicators of socioeconomic position. Age-standardized all-cause mortality rates (ASMRs) were calculated during the first COVID-19 wave (weeks 11-20 in 2020) and compared with ASMRs during weeks 11-20 in 2019 to calculate excess mortality by migrant origin, age and gender. For both years, relative inequalities were calculated by migrant group using Poisson regression, with and without adjustment for sociodemographic and socioeconomic indicators. Results: Among the middle-aged, ASMRs revealed increased mortality in all origin groups, with significant excess mortality for Belgians and Sub-Saharan African men. At old age, excess mortality up to 60% was observed for all groups. In relative terms, most male elderly migrant groups showed higher mortality than natives, as opposed to 2019 and to women. Adding the control variables decreased this excess mortality. Discussion: This study underlined important inequalities in overall and excess mortality in specific migrant communities, especially in men. Tailor-made policy measures and communication strategies should be set-up taking into account the particular risks to which groups are exposed.“
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Angaben zum Inhalt: „This paper presents an overview and comparative analysis of the epidemiological situation and the policy responses in France, Belgium, and Canada during the early stages of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic (Feb.-Aug. 2020). These three countries are compared because they represent a spectrum of different governance structures while also being OECD nations that are similar in many other respects.“
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Angaben zum Inhalt: „This essay is a historical reflection on epidemiological statistics and the ways in which these represent health in a collective way. It compares the use of such statistics in the current COVID-19 epidemic with the use of numbers during the cholera outbreaks of the nineteenth century. Its main point is that health statistics have been (and still are) fundamental to the establishment of a notion of ‘public health’ and to the construction of epidemics as social events. At the same time, such statistics – located as they are at the intersection of science, media, and politics – struggle to take into account people’s often very different individual experiences of coping with disease. While today more varied health data is circulated to a wider audience, and at a far higher speed than in the past, the format of constructing an epidemic through statistics is still very much present, including some of the limitations inherent to this approach (e.g. generalizations about social groups).“
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Angaben zum Inhalt: „Er is een sterk verband tussen sterfte en inkomen, zowel tijdens als voor de COVID-19 crisis. Voor mannen tussen 40 en 65 bv., zien we tot 5 keer meer sterfte bij de 10% laagste inkomens, in vergelijking met de 10% hoogste inkomens. In de bevolkingsgroep ouder dan 65 jaar trof oversterfte tijdens de Corona-pandemie de laagste inkomens harder dan de hoogste inkomens. De oversterfte is het grootst voor ouderen met de laagste inkomens in de armste gemeentes. Zelfs in de oudere bevolkingsgroep is de inkomensongelijkheid in sterfte tijdens maart en mei van 2020 vergelijkbaar met andere jaren. Voor de bevolking onder de 65 jaar is er geen oversterfte tijdens de COVID-19-periode. De oversterfte was het hoogst bij de bewoners van woonzorgcentra. Maar in deze groep is er geen significante relatie tussen inkomen en sterfte. Administratieve data zijn onontbeerlijk voor het bestuderen van de ongelijke impact van de COVID-19 crisis, en kunnen ook hun waarde tonen bij het bestrijden ervan.“
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Abstract: „Theories on issue competition assume that there is only a limited number of issues that a person prioritises simultaneously. In this research note, we test this mechanism by using a panel study that was conducted among Belgian parents in 2019 and 2020. Between the two observations of the study, the country suffered a severe health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigate whether this crisis reduced the priority of environmental issues among respondents. Our results show that there was indeed a significant decline of some indicators for environmental concern, but not for others. Furthermore, we show that a higher priority for the health-related and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a steeper decline in environmental concern.“
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Abstract: „Did the COVID-19 Pandemic Reduce Attention to Environmental Issues?: Theories on issue competition assume that there is only a limited number of issues that a person prioritises simultaneously. In this research note, we test this mechanism by using a panel study that was conducted among Belgian parents in 2019 and 2020. Between the two observations of the study, the country suffered a severe health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigate whether this crisis reduced the priority of environmental issues among respondents. Our results show that there was indeed a significant decline of some indicators for environmental concern, but not for others. Furthermore, we show that a higher priority for the health-related and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a steeper decline in environmental concern.“
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Angaben zum Inhalt: „Eind 2019 ontstond in Wuhan de uitbraak van het COVID-19 virus, wat enkele maanden later voor een wereldwijde pandemie heeft gezorgd. Om de uitbraak van dit virus in te dijken en te bestrijden, hebben België en heel wat andere landen ingrijpende maatregelen moeten doorvoeren die het sociale en economische leven aan banden hebben gelegd. COVID-19 infecteert dus niet alleen de gezondheid, maar ook het sociaal-economische weefsel en heeft zo, al dan niet tijdelijk, een zware impact op de arbeidsmarkt. Het is momenteel nog te vroeg om te kunnen inschatten hoe lang de COVID-19 crisis en bijhorende maatregelen zullen duren, maar de dreiging van een recessie is duidelijk aanwezig. Het maakt het waarschijnlijk dat de Vlaamse arbeidsmarkt na een lange periode van toenemende krapte terug meer ontspannen wordt, door een toenemend aantal werklozen en een dalende vraag naar arbeid. Dit kan ervoor zorgen dat degenen die zich voor de COVID-19-crisis buiten de arbeidsmarkt bevonden, of die niet optimaal werden ingezet, het nog moeilijker zullen hebben om de weg naar volwaardig werk te vinden. Deze groepen verdienen ook de komende tijd onze aandacht. Bovendien wordt de Vlaamse arbeidsmarkt gekenmerkt door een hoge toekomstige uitstroom van 55-plussers en een dalende bevolking op arbeidsleeftijd. Jongeren zijn de voorbije jaren ook steeds later de arbeidsmarkt ingetreden. In het geval dat de Vlaamse arbeidsmarkt zich binnen afzienbare tijd weet te herstellen van de COVID-19 crisis, maken deze trends een creatieve blik op het inzetten van de bevolking op arbeidsleeftijd opnieuw urgent. In dit artikel ontleden we de niet-traditionele groepen van arbeidspotentieel bij de werkenden en niet-beroepsactieven naar gewest en zoomen we in op de mogelijke werkzaamheidsgroei die zou gerealiseerd kunnen worden indien de groepen die het dichtst bij de arbeidsmarkt staan aan het werk zouden gaan.“
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Abstract: „COVID-19 has hit many countries all over the world, and its impact on (party) politics has been undeniable. This crisis situation functions as an opportunity structure incentivising opposition forces to support the government. Not much is known about what drives opposition parties to (not) support the government in crisis situations. This article integrates the literature on rally-around-the-flag, political opportunity structures, party types and party goals. More specifically, we focus on the behaviour of opposition parties towards the government's crisis response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyse whether and how the party type influences the position of the party vis-à-vis the governmental coalition, focusing on the case of Belgium. We categorise the seven opposition parties in Belgium as challenger or mainstream parties and explain their behaviour on the basis of policy-, office- or vote-seeking motives. Our analysis is based on party voting behaviour, elite interviews and an analysis of the main plenary debates.“
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Angaben zum Inhalt: „This study explores whether the corona crisis had an impact on the perception of job insecurity, operationalised as occupational insecurity. At the same time, we examine the association between occupational insecurity and two societal attitudes: political powerlessness and beliefs in a corona conspiracy. Finally, the literature on conspiracies suggests that the association between occupational insecurity and beliefs in a conspiracy are an attempt to give meaning to a crisis situation, like the corona pandemic. This hypothesis is tested by analysing whether political powerlessness mediates the association between occupational insecurity and the belief in a corona conspiracy. Data were gathered in December 2020 via an online survey among 1324 respondents in Flanders (Belgium). All hypotheses were corroborated by the analyses. The results suggest that the corona crisis did not only affect our health and health care system, but also might have ‘infected’ work related and societal and political attitudes.“
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Abstract: „In June 2020, the Flemish populist radical right party Vlaams Belang (VB) published the Corona Blunder Book (CBB; Coronablunderboek in Dutch), detailing the government's mistakes in handling the COVID-19 crisis. Populist parties can 'perform' crisis by emphasising the mistakes made by opponents (Moffitt, 2015) and may use a specifically populist discursive style, consisting largely of aggressive and sarcastic language (Brubaker, 2017). This paper takes the CBB as a case study in the populist performance of crisis and the populist style, finding that the book is, first, a clear example of populist 'everyman' stylistics and the performance of crisis, and, second, that VB uses the book to shift the COVID-19 crisis from a public health crisis to a crisis of governance, seeking to blame Belgium's federal structure for the government's alleged mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic and hence arguing for Flemish independence, one of the party's main agenda points.“
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Angaben zum Inhalt: „Engaging the concepts of flow, circulation and blockage can help us to understand the trajectories of pandemics and the social responses to them. Central to the analysis is the concept of obligatory passage points through which networks must pass. Attempts by various actors to control the movement through them, be they government authorities, health experts and caregivers, economic producers or consumers, can create social tensions. Such tensions were duly recognised during the recurring outbreaks of the plague in the Second Plague Pandemic between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Analysing historical plague ordinances allows us to expose the power mechanisms impacting networks as they move through spaces, and to remain critical of how circulation is controlled and moralised. We argue that historians can contribute to reviewing these mechanisms behind the spread of epidemics and the responses to them from the perspective of movement and blockage.“
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Abstract: „In this article, the author reflects on the impact of COVID-19 on policing, the relations among police officers and the interactions between police and citizens based on systematic social observations in small to semi-sized local police forces during the pandemic. The article discusses the nature of police work during the crisis and new types of interventions that police officers are confronted with (e.g. curfew controls). Additionally, the impact of the pandemic on the internal and external relations is discussed. Internally, the COVID-19 measures may have an impact on police officers’ possibilities for personal, social interactions among colleagues, which may potentially challenge the solidarity within the police force. Externally, tensions may arise in relations with citizens, partly because of unclear regulations or variable interpretations of those regulations. Those unclear regulations, but also uncertainties concerning one’s own competences and questions regarding the police’s role in enforcing the pandemic regulations, put pressure on the police’s (self-)legitimacy.“
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