Lived experiences of racialized emerging adults in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: ‘we still have to adapt and survive because, after all, we must live’

# Abstract

Early research has found that the COVID-19 pandemic and its mitigation strategies disproportionately affected young adults’ mental health. This paper examines how racialized emerging adults in Peel Region, Canada experienced pandemic lockdowns through the lens of their intersecting identities.