5 The Great Disrupter: <scp>COVID</scp>‐19’s Impact on Migration, Mobility and Migrants Globally

McAuliffe, Marie; Freier, Luisa Feline; Skeldon, Ronald; Blower, Jenna

doi:10.1002/wom3.26

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic, and the measures taken to combat it, led to significant decreases in all types of international migration (EMN Ireland, 2021;McAuliffe et al, 2021). Ireland, the UK and the EU all saw decreases in asylum application numbers in 2020 and into 2021.…”

Section: Covid-19 Travel Restrictions and Catch-up Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ireland, the UK and the EU all saw decreases in asylum application numbers in 2020 and into 2021. This is likely a result of 'forced immobility' (McAuliffe et al, 2021), whereby potential applicants were prevented from leaving their countries of origin and entering or leaving the intended countries of transit or destination (see also EMN, 2020aEMN, , 2020b. The increase in applications for international protection in Ireland, particularly from February 2022 onwards, may therefore be explained as a form of catch-up migration following almost two years of forced immobility.…”

Section: Covid-19 Travel Restrictions and Catch-up Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A lack of tourism also led to monetary problems in some countries, which had significant adverse economic effects (EUAA, 2022). Economic impacts in countries of first asylum were often worse for migrants due to a lack of social protection (IOM, 2021;McAuliffe et al, 2021;UNDP, 2020). As discussed in the literature review, economic factors in countries of origin and countries of first asylum play an important role in decisions to migrate.…”

Section: Covid-19 Travel Restrictions and Catch-up Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Explaining recent trends in international protection applications in Ireland

Cunniffe¹,

Murphy²,

Quinn³

et al. 2022

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is a senior research officer at the ESRI. Frances McGinnity is an associate research professor at the ESRI, adjunct professor at Trinity College Dublin and visiting senior fellow at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. Kayla Rush was an information officer in EMN Ireland at the ESRI.Predicting trends in applications into the future is difficult, and trends are largely dependent on the actions and responses of various actors, including governments in countries of origin and first asylum, international actors, other countries in the region and the Irish government. Some drivers are likely to be temporary (e.g., the COVID effect, the initial displacement from Ukraine and the impact of labourmarket shortages if proposed employment-permit reforms are adopted). Others may be longer-term (e.g., network effects, changing smuggler routes and potential deflection effects from the UK). The acknowledgement that factors driving international protection applications are largely outside the control of national governments means that flexible reception systems are key.Further research needs to be conducted to better understand the reasons behind the recent increase in applications in Ireland, including interviews with asylum applicants. There is a lack of research specific to the Irish context on this subject, meaning that the literature review had to draw conclusions from other contexts. Further research should examine the experiences of asylum applicants travelling to Ireland and applying for asylum here, and should conduct a more in-depth examination of Ireland in the context of broader EU trends.1 Figures for July, August and September 2022 are also included in this report, although the analysis remains focused on the first six months of 2022.

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Section: Covid-19 Travel Restrictions and Catch-up Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Covid-19 Travel Restrictions and Catch-up Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Covid-19 Travel Restrictions and Catch-up Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Explaining recent trends in international protection applications in Ireland

Cunniffe¹,

Murphy²,

Quinn³

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“…The pandemic has been particularly severe on the food security of the urban poor and marginalized, including many international and internal migrant workers (Crush et al, 2021). McAuliffe et al (2022) describe COVID‐19 as the ‘great disrupter’ for migrant workers. Many of the world's 280 million international and 750 million internal rural‐urban migrants are precariously employed in labour‐intensive, low‐paid (often informal), 3D (dirty, dangerous, demeaning) jobs with little employment security and limited access to social protection programmes.…”

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Pathways to food insecurity: Migration, hukou and COVID‐19 in Nanjing, China

Crush

Zhong

2022

Population Space and Place

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has issued significant challenges to food systems and the food security of migrants in cities. In China, there have been no studies to date focusing on the food security of migrants during the pandemic. To fill this gap, an online questionnaire survey of food security in Nanjing City, China, was conducted in March 2020. This paper situates the research findings in the general literature on the general migrant experience during the pandemic under COVID and the specifics of the Chinese policy of hukou. Using multiple linear regression and ordered logistic regression, the paper examines the impact of migration status on food security during the pandemic. The paper finds that during the COVID‐19 outbreak in 2020, households without local Nanjing hukou were more food insecure than those with Nanjing hukou. The differences related more to the absolute quantity of food intake, rather than reduction in food quality or in levels of anxiety over food access. Migrants in China and elsewhere during COVID‐19 experienced three pathways to food insecurity—an income gap, an accessibility gap, and a benefits gap. This conceptual framework is used to structure the discussion and interpretation of survey findings and also has wider potential applicability.

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Resilience strategies of Filipino irregular migrant domestic workers in the Netherlands during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Siruno

Siegel

2023

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COVID‐19 has brought a combination of health, socioeconomic and protection challenges to migrants everywhere, and a common view is that these effects have been harshest for those already in vulnerable situations before the pandemic. However, the lived experiences of Filipino irregular migrant domestic workers (IMDWs) in the Netherlands point to a range of impacts instead of a homogenous one. Drawing on interviews and participant observations, we analyse three specific pandemic consequences: income and financial remittance volatility, dual country or transnational precarity and physical and migration status immobility. We then analyse the resilience strategies deployed by IMDWs to navigate through such impacts. While our focus is on the microlevel, we also highlight the vital importance of the responses by the community on the mesolevel, and the government on the macrolevel. Following this relational approach, we put forward a conceptualisation of individual resilience as the capacity to navigate the negative impacts of a shock or crisis to maintain, adapt, or transform valued functionings. We argue that IMDWs cultivate resilience despite their precarious legal status; however, the effectiveness of strategies is contingent on personal circumstances as well as the sociopolitical context wherein they are deployed. The paper contributes to the literature by providing a more nuanced picture of the impacts of and responses to COVID‐19 in relation to migrants with irregular status. The articulation of resilience in terms of valued functionings also paves the way for the advancement of the still nascent research agenda on migration and human development.

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5 The Great Disrupter: COVID‐19’s Impact on Migration, Mobility and Migrants Globally

Cited by 13 publications

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Explaining recent trends in international protection applications in Ireland

Explaining recent trends in international protection applications in Ireland

Pathways to food insecurity: Migration, hukou and COVID‐19 in Nanjing, China

Resilience strategies of Filipino irregular migrant domestic workers in the Netherlands during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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