Rethinking refuge in the time of COVID-19

Meer, Nasar; Hill, Emma; Peace, Timothy; Villegas, Leslie

doi:10.1080/01419870.2020.1855359

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“…The USA closed its borders even to Afghan and Iraqi Special Immigrant Visa holders based in Europe, even if the rate of infection in Germany at the time was lower than in the USA. This draws on but also gives a new twist to long-standing tropes of asylum seekers and refugees 'not simply as carrying the disease, but as the disease' (Meer et al 2021). Other migration controls have been intensified.…”

Section: Accelerating Trends For Migration Securitization and Controlmentioning

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International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

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A much-anticipated end of the COVID-19 pandemic is on the horizon. It is important to reflect on the ways in which the pandemic has impacted the international politics of migration and especially on the migration-security nexus, which is still little understood but affecting policies and population movements with future implications. How the pandemic has shaped tradeoffs between securitization of migration, health, and economic concerns in governing migration? What are the new trends emerging from the pandemic on the migration-security nexus? And how can we study these in the coming years? This Research Note features insights from scholars associated with the British International Studies Association’s working group on the ‘International Politics of Migration, Refugees and Diaspora’. They argue that the pandemic has exacerbated tendencies for migration control beyond reinforcing nation-state borders, namely through foregrounding ‘riskification’ of migration discourses and practices, adding to an earlier existing securitization of migration considered as a ‘threat’. Digital controls at borders and beyond were ramped up, as were racial tropes and discrimination against migrants and mobile persons more generally. These trends deepen the restrictions on liberal freedoms during a period of global democratic backsliding, but also trigger a counter-movement where the visibility of migrants as ‘key workers’ and their deservingness in host societies has been enhanced, and diasporas became more connected to their countries of origin. This Research Note finds that enhanced controls, on the one side, and openings for visibility of migrants and transnational connectivity of diasporas, on the other, are worthy to study in the future as political trends per se. Yet, it would be also interesting to study them as interconnected in a dual movement of simultaneous restriction and inclusion, and in an interdependent world where the power of nation-states has been reasserted due to the pandemic, but migrant transnationalism has remained largely intact.

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Section: Accelerating Trends For Migration Securitization and Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

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“…In Canada, refugee resettlement has been suspended for months, as well as the reception of asylum applications at land and air borders 11 which were closed to non-essential travelers until late summer 2021 12 . The treatment of asylum seekers within Canada was tragically cruel, in ways that don't align with the country's reputation as a global leader for refugee protection: asylum seekers were overrepresented in the jobs most at risk of COVID-19 infection (Cleveland et al, 2020;Meer et al, 2021), and the federal government deported more than 12,120 asylum seekers in 2020 -the largest number on an annual basis since the Steven Harper Conservative era in 2015 (Christoff, 2021).…”

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Procedures for claimant asylum within Canada, acceptance and rejection

Cameron¹,

Joundi²

2023

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“…Along with lockdowns and quarantines of refugee camps and ‘hotspots’, many EU States temporarily suspended all asylum procedures during the first wave of the Covid‐19 pandemic (FRA, 2020). The UNHCR argued that these suspensions in addition to the border closures put in place were putting the ‘core principles’ of international refugee protection to the test (Meer et al ., 2021). This suspension created an additional source of insecurity for asylum seekers.…”

Section: Lockdowns and Quarantine: Differential Treatment For Refugeesmentioning

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Immigration, Refugees and Responses

Freedman

2021

J of Common Market Studies

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Rethinking refuge in the time of COVID-19

Cited by 22 publications

References 16 publications

International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

International politics of migration in times of ‘crisis’ and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic

Procedures for claimant asylum within Canada, acceptance and rejection

Immigration, Refugees and Responses

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