Comparative Perspectives on Migration, Diversities and the Pandemic
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Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2022 10:38
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Refugee’s agency and coping strategies in refugee camps during the coronavirus pandemic: ethnographic perspectives
The global spread of the coronavirus pandemic has particularly dramatic consequences for the lives of migrants and refugees living in already marginalised and restricted conditions, whose ongoing crisis is at ...
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Global migration governance from below in times of COVID-19 and “Zoomification”: civil society in „invited “ and „invented “ spaces
The global pandemic has resulted in ad hoc unilateral policies on migration, mobility and border management while at the same time emphasizing the need for global cooperation. For global governance in this fie...
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Towards a typology of social protection for migrants and refugees in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 health crisis has put to the test Latin America’s already precarious social protection systems. This paper comparatively examines what type of social protection has been provided, by whom, and to ...
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Social remittances during COVID-19: on the “new normality” negotiated by transnational families
Social remittances- the transfer of ideas, practices, and codes of behaviors- are a well-documented subject in migrant transnationalism literature and transnational family studies. However, the COVID-19 (coron...
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Challenges of reverse migration in India: a comparative study of internal and international migrant workers in the post-COVID economy
In India, the major drivers of both internal and international migration are the prevailing unemployment, competitive labour market and enhanced livelihood prospects in the destination state or country. Howeve...
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Organising labour market integration support for refugees in Austria and Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic
This paper addresses the question of how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected the labour market integration support (LMIS) organised for refugees in Austria and Sweden, and the potential consequences of the chan...
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Examining migration governance: evidence of rising insecurities due to COVID-19 in China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the context of global migration. From a migration perspective, the pandemic is a source of insecurities that challenge migrants, their livelihoods and migration ...
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Rethinking labour migration: Covid-19, essential work, and systemic resilience
Many of the ‘essential workers’ during the Covid-19 pandemic are migrants, playing an important role for the continued functioning of basic services – notably health services, social care, and food supply chai...
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The economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Sri Lankan migrants in Qatar
The spread of Covid-19 in Qatar and the pandemic-led economic slump in the country have substantial financial implications for Sri Lankan migrant workers in Qatar and the Sri Lankan economy as a whole, as Qata...
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Who is watching? Refugee protection during a pandemic - responses from Uganda and South Africa
Both Uganda and South Africa were quick to respond to the global pandemic – Uganda for example imposing quarantine on foreign travellers after only a handful of cases before shutting off all international flig...
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Migration and mobility of third-country national labour workers to and inside Europe during the Covid-19 pandemic – a legal analysis
The Covid-19 pandemic took most EU Member States of the European Union by surprise, as they underestimated the rapid spread of the contagion across the continent. The response of the EU Member States was asymm...
Citation: Comparative Migration Studies 2021 9:22