“…Given the high concentration of migrants in jobs that demand continued exposure to the public, physical distancing policies mean that these populations are already among those hardest hit by the pandemic: the income of informal workers in Latin America and the Caribbean decreased by 81 percent in the first month of the crisis (ILO, 2020a); and 1.2 million Venezuelans in Colombia and Ecuador are expected to suffer severe food insecurity (WFP, 2020). In addition, most migrants in South American cities reside in overcrowded and often precarious collective dwellings, rented rooms, or self‐help settlements (Fossatti and Uriarte, 2018; Serrano Pucci and Véras, 2019; Vera and Adler, 2020). These conditions not only render these populations more vulnerable to the risks associated with the virus, but may also curtail their ability to follow basic prevention measures such as hand‐washing and physical distancing.…”