Migrant Futures
Pandemic Borders was created in April 2020 to examine the challenges that COVID-19 raised for vulnerable residents and workers at and within national borders, and also to shine a spotlight on the resilience and solidarity emerging across those frontiers.
Now, with the worst of the pandemic behind us, we ask: what will international migration look like over the years ahead as the pandemic subsides? What has it revealed about the structural challenges that were present across the world before it struck? What are the new priorities for migration and asylum governance? And what lessons have we learned?
Healthcare gig platforms help migrant workers survive – but at what cost?
Platforms like Uber, DoorDash and Deliveroo give migrants a stepping-stone to better jobs. They aren’t such a good idea in healthcare, though
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Published in:Migrant Futures: OpinionUkrainian refugees need security. EU’s temporary protection can’t give itI’m an immigrant as well as a researcher, so I know well why the EU’s emergency response scheme isn’t as generous as it looks
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Published in:Migrant Futures: OpinionThe privilege of staying home: COVID and the highly skilled workforceRemote working during the pandemic allowed once-mobile skilled workers to choose immobility, with possible long-term...
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Published in:Migrant Futures: FeatureHow the UK’s East and South-East Asian communities are fighting COVID-related violenceMigrant and diaspora communities are coming together to respond to a rise in racist violence
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Published in:Migrant Futures: FeatureGetting a foothold in global opera: the cost of COVIDAspiring singers are finding it hard to begin careers in the world of international opera because of difficulties...
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Published in:Migrant Futures: OpinionRethink migration policy for the vulnerable to protect prosperity of allWeather disasters are causing people to move – and this is set to rise. COP 26 needs to get radical for a climate solution
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Published in:Migrant Futures: AnalysisHow COVID-19 exposed Canada’s treatment of migrant workersThere was a discrepancy between the discourses of the ‘heroism’ of Canada’s essential workers – many of whom are...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: AnalysisMigrants bear the brunt of Canada’s worsening housing crisisWith fewer homes to rent and rising landlord discrimination, cities such as Montreal must instigate policy change to...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionAustralia badly needs a plan to make refugee settlement workPandemic has highlighted government shortcomings on regional integration, racism and suitable working visas for new arrivals
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionItaly’s problem is not labour shortages, but a shortage of workers’ rightsThe country’s scheme to regularise the status of its undocumented migrant workers, prompted by the pandemic, has...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: AnalysisWill hate crimes make Canada a less attractive destination for immigrants?Canada has long claimed to be a global defender of human rights, but it has not always been welcoming towards...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: FeatureIn Toronto, the pandemic is turning South Asian women into entrepreneursFacing unemployment and a loss of income, a growing number of women are setting up online trading businesses
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Published in: Migrant Futures: AnalysisCOVID-19 has worsened South Asian women in Canada’s struggle to find jobsInnovative employment services are needed to identify and address many of the key barriers they are facing
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Published in: Live discussionsWhen asylum seekers are deported into dangerMost countries closed their borders over the pandemic, but for asylum seekers, deportation continued all over the...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: AnalysisFor migrants in Canada, who bears the cost of home ownership?Buying property can be an expression of belonging, but the nature of the housing market makes it an unequal process
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionThe challenges of immigrating to Canada’s smaller citiesCity planners and policymakers in Canada’s smaller cities must seize the opportunity COVID-19 has presented to...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionAustralia’s regions need a new immigration plan after the pandemicA survey of international students and backpackers found that, since COVID-19, 60% were less likely to recommend...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: FeatureThe rise of the border and surveillance industry and why you should be concernedOur world is becoming more walled due to the influence of private profiteers on governments – and increasingly...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionCould artificial intelligence improve decision-making in refugee cases?Despite the risks that it poses, predictive technology could be a force for good in refugee systems under the right...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionWill Biden’s ‘smart borders’ be any different from Trump’s?Expanding the use of AI, surveillance and data-driven technology could be more dangerous for privacy and human...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionChina’s relations with the African continent: Three elephants in the roomHow racism, the media and local realities could shape the future of migration between China and Africa
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionAs COVID brings migrants home, how can Nepal reintegrate returning workers?Money from overseas makes up a quarter of GDP, and the effects of the pandemic are putting a squeeze on an already...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionAnywhere but here? China’s response to refugee protection during COVID-19The pandemic is having a profound impact on refugee protection globally. But is China doing enough?
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionHow COVID-19 exposed China’s anti-Black racismThe draconian measures taken in many Chinese cities to control the pandemic exacerbated the marginalisation of Black people
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionPermanently temporary: The problem with Canada’s immigration policyYou can’t build a thriving economy or a society on temporary residents
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Published in: Migrant Futures: AnalysisWhy the Canadian government must review its immigration policyCanada’s immigration planning is increasingly divorced from the real impacts of COVID-19 – and undervalues...
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