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Marginalization in the time of Covid

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Meaning of Marginalization

The meaning of marginalization is the treatment of any person, any particular group of

people as well as any population cohort as being insignificant, discriminatory and exclusionary.

They also refer to having unequal power relationships in different domains such as economic,

health, political and social. People who are generally not given sufficient attention and are even

underserved by the authorities and the management are labeled marginalized segment of the

population.

The marginalized population in Canada generally comprises the minority population

belonging to different groups such as South Asian, Thailand and Filipino population, Arabian,

Latin American, people belonging to South Asian regime, West Asian and Japanese. Aboriginal

people and people with disabilities are also a part of the marginalized segment of the population.

Homeless people, prisoners as well as people living on the downtown east side of Vancouver are

also subjected to marginalized treatment amidst COVID (Loock et al,2016).

Discussion of the prison population as marginalized population

The prison population is the core of the research report. It is to be explained pertinent to

the marginalized segment population of Canada. A special emphasis on the deprivation of this

population during COVID pandemic is to be laid in this report. The prison population is basically

deprived from voluntary and informed decisions related to employment and even effective

employment participation is also restricted for them in the society.

Besides, the prison population is also deprived mentally, physically, emotionally,

psychologically and spiritually from different activities and practices. The routine norms are not

applicable on to them in the society generally. Their even self-esteem and identity is also
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deprived from being applicable in the society like the way other people’s identity is catered for.

The opportunities to be granted a prosperous and a better future are very limited generally in the

society of Canada. They are excluded from the mainstream society by being provided limited

opportunities of emotional and psychological well-being as well as chances of recreation at

different fronts is limited for them. The privileges enjoyed by the local population are not

provided to the population residing in the prisons of Canada. Such measures have an adverse

effect on their mental, emotional and psychological health in the long term. It makes them

subjected to depression and other mental illnesses. Often, they get suicidal and are unable to

develop and seek sound cognitive and intellectual abilities. Their everyday lives are not as

regular and full of entertainment and other routine practices and approaches as is for the ordinary

dwellers of the society living their lives freely (Wyton,2021).

Update on prison population amidst the COVID

The scenario of serving the prison population in Canada amidst the Covid pandemic is

diverse. Some of the prisoners during the COVID period have been released. Their trial process

in the courts were expedited, and those who were close to getting bail already got freedom from

the prison. There had been other prisoners living in the jail for whom the authorities had been

adamant that if they contract COVID virus, they would be sentenced to death eventually.

Contracting corona virus has largely been a sin for them in the jail or in the prison

centers. This scenario is creating new vulnerabilities for them by being deprived from the basic

amenities and privileges enjoyed by ordinary citizens of the Canadian society. They would be

labeled as being marginalized from other Canadian members of the society as they are cut off
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from provision to sound and effective medical care facilities upon contracting corona virus in the

jail (Kerr,2020).

The prison population of Canada has also been enjoying early and easy bail without any

complicated trial process so that the authorities in the prison does not have to take the toil of

catering to provision of effective medical facilities for them. This means they are considered

marginalized compared to other members of Canadian society because the latter are provided full

access to adequate and timely health services upon contracting the terrible covid virus in their

bodies. More alarming is to note the fact that adequate financial budget is not allocated to

provide the necessary medicines, injections of anti-bodies and other anti-biotics required for the

patients of the corona virus. Generally, the prisons do not provide emergency facilities for

worsening medical facilities such as ventilators, oxy-pulse metres and other equipment like

oxygen masks (Loock et al,2016).

Generally the free citizens of the mainstream segment of Canadian population enjoy

adequate medical facilities required for covid virus. They are provided all required injections,

anti-biotics and other medical urgency facilities such as oxygen masks and ventilators that are

required for urgent medication to the covid patient. However, not all the prisoners once

contracted covid virus are provided the very same facilities that are enjoyed by members of the

mainstream Canadian society. Though arrangements for isolation are timely provided to the

prisoners upon contracting covid virus but still they are not provided food, and other required

supplements and facilities to be availed by the prisoners. In comparison with mainstream

Canadians, this prison population this way is underserved (Kerr,2020).

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Generally, there is also racial discrimination rendered towards the prisoners of Canada.

The black population in the prisons are not well treated and stay underserved in Canadian jails as

compared to mainstream members of the society of Canada. Women still are not well treated and

stay deprived of healthy and adequate health facilities in the prisons of Canada. The prisoners

belonging to the low-income strata stay deprived of free health facilities in the jail. This

discrimination has almost persisted even during covid virus (Wyton,2021).

Conclusion

The prison population in the prisons of Canada are discriminated on grounds of race,

class and gender. They are not provided the basic adequate and timely health facilities and other

emergency health measures that are required for the patient of the covid virus. Considering this

alarming and grave scenario, it is indispensable that the Canadian government provides for free

and fair social policies that are objectively provided towards all members of the society of

Canada equally and fairly.

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References

Kerr, L. (2020). Coronavirus in Canadian prisons. Queen’s Gazette.

Wyton, M. (2021). The Tyee. They said the virus does not discriminate. They were wrong.

Loock,C. et al. (2016). Marginalized Population. UBCMJ. Volume 7,Issue 2.