We Are Not All in the Same Boat: Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Context of COVID-19
A. Philo Magdalene,
Michelle Whiting,
Felicia Rangel-Samponaro
et al.
Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existential risks and uncertainties experienced by refugees and asylum seekers on a day-to-day basis. Although the pandemic presents some level of risk to everyone, the world’s refugees and asylum seekers bear a disproportionate burden of risk in the context of COVID-19. Overcrowding in camps, lack of access to medical services, changes to the asylum-seeking process, movement restrictions, and other factors converge to marginalize refugees and asylum seekers. This chap… Show more
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