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Published in: Pandemic BordersEurope must recognise the vital contributions of vulnerable migrants
It 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 theft
Employers 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 economy
COVID-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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Published in: Pandemic BordersImmigration is the key to Canada’s survival and recovery after COVID-19
For Atlantic Canada to get through this crisis, a balance between public health regulations and migration are necessary.
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Published in: Pandemic BordersAre Canadians changing their attitude on migration due to COVID-19?
Canadians have a front row seat to the spectacle of a society in which immigration and racial diversity have become...
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Published in: Pandemic BordersHero nurses, untrustworthy domestic workers, and vilified sex workers
In times of pandemic, women migrants are facing restrictions on their mobility and the devaluation of their labor.
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Published in: Pandemic BordersThe future of international students in Australia hangs in the balance
Health, economic, and political conditions will determine the fate of international students in Australia.
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Published in: Pandemic BordersJapan’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: Pandemic BordersWill 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: Pandemic BordersWhere 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: Pandemic BordersWhy 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: Pandemic BordersThe 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: Pandemic BordersCOVID-19 and the global addiction to cheap migrant labour
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the world’s structural dependence on exploitable labour.