Migrant futures
Pandemic Borders was created in April, 2020, to provide an immediate examination of the challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic 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, as the world begins to look toward a post-pandemic scenario, we turn our attention to the future of migration, and ask: What will international migration look like after the pandemic? What has the pandemic revealed about the structural challenges that have been present across all regions of the world long before the pandemic? What are the new priorities for migration and asylum governance? And what lessons have we learned?
Australia badly needs a plan to make refugee settlement work
Pandemic has highlighted government shortcomings on regional integration, racism and suitable working visas for new arrivals
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Published in:Pandemic Borders: 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:Pandemic Borders: 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:Pandemic Borders: 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:Pandemic Borders: 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:Pandemic Borders: 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:Pandemic Borders: 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: Pandemic Borders: 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: Pandemic Borders: 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: Pandemic Borders: 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: Pandemic Borders: 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: Pandemic Borders: 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: Pandemic Borders: 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: Pandemic Borders: 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: Pandemic Borders: 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: Pandemic Borders: 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: Pandemic Borders: 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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Published in: Pandemic Borders: OpinionWhat will migration look like after the pandemic?Increased control of people’s mobility because of COVID-19 might not be so easy to undo.
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Published in: Pandemic Borders: OpinionIs COVID-19 an opportunity to achieve the rights of refugees?Let’s be sure to seize this opportunity that comes in the guise of a terrible pandemic.
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Published in: Pandemic Borders: OpinionCOVID-19 was a big test for UN migration initiatives. Did they succeed?Migrants working in frontline jobs are twice as likely to contract the coronavirus. They are also less likely to...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersSri Lanka’s returning migrants need more than plane tickets and quarantinesBringing migrants home during the pandemic is not only a health concern but a social and economic one as well.
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Published in: Pandemic BordersCOVID-19 is pushing migrants back to their home countriesWith large numbers of migrants returning to their countries of origin due to the pandemic, better reintegration...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersEurope must recognise the vital contributions of vulnerable migrantsIt is time for EU governments to implement fair migration policies that recognise the vital role of its migrant workforce.
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Published in: Pandemic BordersThe other pandemic for migrant workers: wage theftEmployers are taking advantage of the COVID-19 crisis to unlawfully dismiss their migrant workforce and to withhold...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersReturning ‘heroes’: Filipino migrant workers met with a devastated economyCOVID-19 has exposed deep-seated cracks in the Philippines’ export-based and remittance-dependent economy.
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Published in: Pandemic BordersWhat will international migration in West Africa look like after COVID-19?Travel restrictions may force more and more West Africans to use irregular channels of migration in the future.
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Published in: Pandemic BordersAre Canadians really open to more migration in the future?Canada’s embrace of territorial closure during the COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with a spike in xenophobia and racism.
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