Date: 2020
Type: Article
Risks and challenges to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees living under COVID-19 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Migration policy practice, 2020, Vol. X, No. 2, pp. 48-53[Migration Policy Centre]
NAVARRETE, Blanca, SANCHEZ, Gabriella, Risks and challenges to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees living under COVID-19 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Migration policy practice, 2020, Vol. X, No. 2, pp. 48-53[Migration Policy Centre] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/66953
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The article by Blanca Navarrete (DHIA, A.C.) and Gabriella Sanchez (Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute) in this special issue of MPP provides an empirical account of the day-to-day consequences of the pandemic in Ciudad Juárez, a city on the Mexican side of the United States–Mexico border and one of the main hubs for the processing of people seeking asylum at ports of entry along the United States. The article shows that the outbreak of COVID-19, and the Government’s decision to suspend all non-essential business, have brought an end to many of the employment options and income sources available to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees. As a result, many have had to turn to shelters, most of which, however, have ceased welcoming new residents as a result of the risks of contagion. The inability to afford housing or to be admitted into a shelter has further exposed migrants and asylum seekers to scams, thefts, kidnappings, temporary abductions, and torture in the city.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/66953
ISSN: 2223-5248
External link: https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/mpp-41.pdf
Series/Number: [Migration Policy Centre]
Publisher: International Organization for Migration; Eurasylum
Keyword(s): Covid-19 COVID-19 Coronavirus Mexico
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