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What will migration look like after the pandemic?

Increased control of people’s mobility because of COVID-19 might not be so easy to undo.

By Antoine Pécoud
What will migration look like after the pandemic?
Bangladeshi migrant workers wait outside of the Saudia airlines office in Dhaka, Bangladesh for air tickets to return to Saudi Arabia on 24 September 2020 | Suvra Kanti Das/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved
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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

One of the most immediate consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the closure of many international borders. This had a severe impact on migration, and in many cases even brought it to a halt. And it is very likely that these effects will be deep and lasting.

Shortly before the outbreak of COVID-19, 164 states met in Marrakech in December 2018 to agree upon a vision for the future of migration and of migration policy. The outcome was the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).

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