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Published in: Migrant FuturesJapan’s migrants are not allowed to go ‘home’
In Japan, COVID-19 shifted the meaning of ‘home’ overnight with devastating effects on the transnational lives of migrants.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesWill Canada give its foreign essential workers their rights?
Canada has the opportunity to live up to its values of human rights, dignity, fairness, and justice. Will it take it?
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Published in: Migrant FuturesWhere are the immigrants in Canada’s policy debates?
Any social policy after COVID-19 needs to acknowledge the diversity of those whose interests are at stake.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesWhy is migration vital to Canada’s smaller cities?
If Canada’s smaller urban centres want to continue growing, they will need to attract more international migrants.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesThe future of migration in the Global South: racializing diseases has to stop
How will the pandemic shape south-south migration flows and impact the realities of migrants?
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Published in: Migrant FuturesCOVID-19 and the global addiction to cheap migrant labour
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the world’s structural dependence on exploitable labour.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesThe bitter taste of Greek strawberries
In Greece, COVID-19 has increased the exploitation of the migrant workers who ensure our food supply.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesHow COVID-19 is redefining “working remotely” for Canada’s high-skilled foreign workers
For those who had a job offer and seemingly a bright future in Canada, travel has been halted until further notice....
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Published in: Migrant FuturesCan the COVID-19 crisis be an opportunity for Canada’s migrant farmworkers?
The truly ‘essential’ temporary migrant workers are the ones who usually find it nearly impossible to access...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesCan Nepal cope with the return of migrant workers?
With thousands of Nepali migrant workers forced to return home because of COVID-19, the country is facing serious challenges.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesDid the COVID-19 pandemic revive nationalism?
It only took a sub-microscopic pathogen to confirm that, when a crisis strikes, it is the national framework that...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesWhat fate for the Venezuelan migrants stranded in Peru?
Peru and other countries of destination, have a moral duty towards vulnerable migrants and refugees.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesWill settlement agencies in Canada survive the pandemic?
Many settlement agencies are not in a position to keep operations open and are suffering significant job losses.
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Published in: Migrant Futures“South Africa belongs to all who live in it”, COVID-19 showed it does not
Failure to address the needs of the most vulnerable will hasten the infection rate and flame the fires of...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesFor migrant workers in the MENA, flattening the curve of inequality is urgent
The global COVID-19 pandemic is not the root cause of migrant exploitation, discrimination and vulnerability but it...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesWhat future for the EU after COVID-19?
The current crisis urgently calls for visions for the EU and, indeed, the world post-COVID-19.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesBio-surveillance, invisible borders and the dangerous after-effects of COVID-19 measures
Long after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, we may continue to be affected by its residue of ultra-sophisticated...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesCOVID-19 at the Brazil-Venezuela borders: the good, the bad and the ugly
How an already difficult situation for refugees in terms of integration and health can become an explosive...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesRe-bordering Canada’s privately sponsored refugees during the pandemic
How will sponsored refugees face the challenges of COVID-19 in the face of physical distancing and re-bordering that...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesVulnerable and unprotected in the US: it only takes political will
The temporary status of uncertainty and vulnerability in the face of COVID-19 is akin to what hundreds of thousands...