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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionHow COVID-19 exposed China’s anti-Black racism
The draconian measures taken in many Chinese cities to control the pandemic exacerbated the marginalisation of Black people
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Published in: Migrant Futures: OpinionPermanently temporary: The problem with Canada’s immigration policy
You can’t build a thriving economy or a society on temporary residents
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Published in: Migrant Futures: AnalysisWhy the Canadian government must review its immigration policy
Canada’s immigration planning is increasingly divorced from the real impacts of COVID-19 – and undervalues...
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Published in: Migrant Futures: 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: Migrant Futures: 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: Migrant Futures: 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: Migrant FuturesSri Lanka’s returning migrants need more than plane tickets and quarantines
Bringing 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: Migrant FuturesCOVID-19 is pushing migrants back to their home countries
With large numbers of migrants returning to their countries of origin due to the pandemic, better reintegration...
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Published in: Migrant FuturesEurope 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: Migrant FuturesThe 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: Migrant FuturesReturning ‘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: Migrant FuturesWhat 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: Migrant FuturesAre 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: Migrant FuturesImmigration 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: Migrant FuturesAre 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: Migrant FuturesHero 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: Migrant FuturesThe 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: 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.