Assistance and Non-Assistance Before and During the Time of COVID-19

• Main Authors: Dagmang, Ferdinand D, Dagmang, Nathalie D
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2021
• Subjects: Helping Behavior; Sidewalk Vendors; Sidewalk Dwellers; COVID-19; Field Work; Legal Positivism; Pakikipagkapwa; Suki; Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/theology-faculty-pubs/43; https://mstreview.com/?page_id=570
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article is based on a fieldwork among the sidewalk vendors and sidewalk dwellers of Escolta; Manila; before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. It looks into the treatment of ‘illegals’ in public settings. Before and during the pandemic; street vendors and dwellers were at the mercy of the ‘illeg...