COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens
The economic crisis induced by COVID‐19 could be long, deep, and pervasive when viewed through amigration lens. Lockdowns, travel bans, and social distancing have brought global economic activities to a near standstill. Host countries face addition...
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okr-10986-336342021-07-04T09:01:57Z COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens World Bank CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC MIGRATION REMITTANCES FOREIGN WORKERS The economic crisis induced by COVID‐19 could be long, deep, and pervasive when viewed through amigration lens. Lockdowns, travel bans, and social distancing have brought global economic activities to a near standstill. Host countries face additional challenges in many sectors, such as health and agriculture, that depend on the availability of migrant workers. Migrants face the risk of contagion and also the possible loss of employment, wages, and health insurance coverage. This Migration and Development Brief provides a prognosis of how these events might affect global trends in international economic migration and remittances in 2020 and 2021. Considering that migrants tend to be concentrated in urban economic centers (cities), and are vulnerable to infection by the coronavirus, there is a need to include migrants in efforts to fight thecoronavirus. Migrant remittances provide an economic lifeline to poor households in many countries; a reduction in remittance flows could increase poverty and reduce households’ access to much‐needed health services. The crisis could exacerbate xenophobic, discriminatory treatment of migrants, which calls for greater vigilance against such practices. This Brief is largely focused on international migrants, but governments should not ignore the plight of internal migrants. The magnitude of internal migration is about two‐and‐a‐half times that of international migration. Lockdowns, loss of employment, and social distancing prompted a chaotic and painful process of mass return for internal migrants in India and many countries in Latin America. Thus, the COVID‐19 containment measures might have contributed to spreading the epidemic. Governments need to address the challenges facing internal migrants by including them in health services and cashtransfer and other social programs, and protecting them from discrimination. 2020-04-22T21:12:55Z 2020-04-22T21:12:55Z 2020-04 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/989721587512418006/COVID-19-Crisis-Through-a-Migration-Lens http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33634 English Migration and Development Brief,no. 32; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief |
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The economic crisis induced by COVID‐19
could be long, deep, and pervasive when viewed through
amigration lens. Lockdowns, travel bans, and social
distancing have brought global economic activities to a near
standstill. Host countries face additional challenges in
many sectors, such as health and agriculture, that depend on
the availability of migrant workers. Migrants face the risk
of contagion and also the possible loss of employment,
wages, and health insurance coverage. This Migration and
Development Brief provides a prognosis of how these events
might affect global trends in international economic
migration and remittances in 2020 and 2021. Considering that
migrants tend to be concentrated in urban economic centers
(cities), and are vulnerable to infection by the
coronavirus, there is a need to include migrants in efforts
to fight thecoronavirus. Migrant remittances provide an
economic lifeline to poor households in many countries; a
reduction in remittance flows could increase poverty and
reduce households’ access to much‐needed health services.
The crisis could exacerbate xenophobic, discriminatory
treatment of migrants, which calls for greater vigilance
against such practices. This Brief is largely focused on
international migrants, but governments should not ignore
the plight of internal migrants. The magnitude of internal
migration is about two‐and‐a‐half times that of
international migration. Lockdowns, loss of employment, and
social distancing prompted a chaotic and painful process of
mass return for internal migrants in India and many
countries in Latin America. Thus, the COVID‐19 containment
measures might have contributed to spreading the epidemic.
Governments need to address the challenges facing internal
migrants by including them in health services and
cashtransfer and other social programs, and protecting them
from discrimination. |
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