‘Migrant and Ethnic Economies in Times of Crisis: Regeneration, COVID, Brexit and Cost of Living’ considers how traders and small businesses in Elephant and Castle have been impacted by four successive and overlapping yet distinct crises. It highlights the ways in which the Regeneration of Elephant and Castle — and resulting displacement — has created base levels of instability which make independent businesses in the area more vulnerable to other shocks.
Ultimately, the report argues that the challenges which EC traders presently face cannot be attributed to any individual crisis alone; rather, such harm emerges from the ways in which each interacts with other locally- and globally-situated forces. The report also proposes alternative policy approaches to rebuild business resilience and support the local traders going forward.
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Report authors: Sarah Goldzweig, Mabel Machado López, Patria Román Velázquez,
Santiago Peluffo Soneyra, Natalia Pérez, Sophie Wall.
Illustrations: Meghan Peterson (as part of Narratives of
Relocation, a project funded by King’s College London, by Patria
Roman-Velazquez and Meghan Peterson for Latin Elephant, 2022)
This work has been possible thanks to the support of Impact on Urban Health