Livelihood Coping Strategies among the Congolese Urban Refugee Women during the Covid 19 Crisis

Abstract

Coping strategies among the urban refugee women is a study that focusses on the understanding of how refugees in urban setting cope with their livelihoods mostly during Covid 19 lockdown. By focusing on the coping strategies, we critically analyze how refugee women, managed the livelihoods since the economy was in total lockdown and yet there was need to survive. The purpose of this study of the livelihood coping strategies among urban refugee women from Democratic Republic of Congo is to find out if there are any ways refugee women endeavored to find means of sustaining their livelihoods during the Covid 19 lockdown which was a testing time for everybody in the global context