With COVID-19 disrupting travel, shutting borders, and redefining what is essential work, Pandemic Borders explores what international migration will look like after the pandemic, in this series titled #MigrantFutures
While the long term effects of the pandemic are still largely unclear, some predictions about a post-COVID-19 world have focused on the changing power dynamics between great powers, the rise of nationalism, the end of open borders and globalisation, and have a generally unfavourable outlook on migration. These predictions have often focused on the impact of the pandemic on the relationships between the states in the Global North or the implications for South to North migration flows. However, how will the pandemic shape south-south migration flows and impact the realities of migrants with a precarious status?
