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Title:Covid-19, migrant workers and the resilience of social care in Europe Author(s):VAN HOOREN, FrancaDate:2020Type:OtherSeries/Number:Migration Policy Centre; MigResHub; Think Pieces; 2020/04Abstract:The Covid-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of social care. In many countries, social care occupations have been put on lists of ‘essential occupations’, meaning that workers in these occupations were exempted ...
Title:Strengthening health system resilience : what role for migrants and migration policies? Author(s):THOMAS, Steve; FLEMING, Padraic; O'DONOGHUE, Catherine; ALMIRALL-SANCHEZ, AriannaDate:2020Type:OtherSeries/Number:Migration Policy Centre; MigResHub; Think Pieces; 2020/05Abstract:Catastrophic events occurring over the last decade or so have highlighted the need to understand how to govern health systems in the face of shocks. In high-income countries this was triggered by the economic crisis from ...
Title:Systemic resilience as a response to COVID-19 Author(s):HYNES, WilliamDate:2020Type:OtherSeries/Number:RSC; Migration Policy Centre; MigResHub; Think Pieces; 2020/01Abstract:System resilience is a term of rising popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic. Governments worldwide have the opportunity to adopt a systemic, anticipatory approach to reinforcing resilience as a response to the interconnected ...
Title:COVID-19 and systemic resilience : rethinking the impacts of migrant workers and labour migration policies Author(s):ANDERSON, Bridget; POESCHEL, Friedrich Gerd
; RUHS, Martin
Date:2020Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2020/57; Migration Policy CentreAbstract:This paper argues that concerns about the resilience of essential services require a reassessment of the impacts of migrant workers and the design of labour migration and related public policies. The Covid-19 pandemic ...




Title:Is there a link between travel and spread of Covid19? Author(s):Migration Policy Centre (MPC)Date:2020Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; Migration Policy Centre; 2020; Data AnalysisAbstract:Does travel from China help predict the number of Covid19 cases in other countries? We can address this question by looking at mobility data gathered by the Global Mobilities Project of the Migration Policy Centre at the ...
Title:The end of the right to seek asylum? : COVID-19 and the future of refugee protection Author(s):GHEZELBASH, Daniel; TAN, Nikolas FeithDate:2020Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2020/55; Migration Policy CentreAbstract:The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the institution of asylum, exacerbating longer term trends limiting the ability of asylum seekers to cross-borders to seek protection. As a result, the early months of ...
Title:Inequality at the border : how visa costs penalize citizens of poor world regions Author(s):RECCHI, Ettore
; DEUTSCHMANN, Emanuel
Date:2020Type:OtherSeries/Number:Migration Policy Centre; Blogpost; 2020; Debate MigrationAbstract:The Covid-19 pandemic has made everybody aware that individual mobility is a major engine of social life but, at the same time, it is also politically channelled and limited. One after another, governments have shuttered ...




Title:Working conditions in essential occupations and the role of migrants Author(s):NIVOROZHKIN, Anton; POESCHEL, Friedrich Gerd
Date:2021Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSC; 2021/40; Migration Policy CentreAbstract:Following a national lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, state governments in Germany published lists of “essential” occupations that were considered necessary to maintain basic services such as health care, ...


Title:Migrants and systemic resilience : a global COVID-19 research and policy hub (Mig-Res-Hub) Author(s):EUI RSCASDate:2020Type:OtherSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; Migration Policy Centre; 2020Abstract:The primary aim of MigResHub is to facilitate global and comparative research on how migrant labour shapes the vulnerability and resilience of essential economic sectors and public services to the current COVID19 crisis ...
Title:Understanding the interplay between structural and systemic vulnerability : the case of migrant agricultural workers during the Covid-19 pandemic Author(s):TAGLIACOZZO, Serena; PISACANE, Lucio; KILKEY, MajellaDate:2021Type:Technical ReportSeries/Number:Migration Policy Centre; MigResHub; Commentary; 2021/10Abstract:Disasters and emergencies, such as the Covid-19 pandemic, are known to expose and exacerbate the vulnerabilities of our societal systems. In this short commentary, we propose to distinguish between structural vulnerability, ...