The Coronavirus Crisis and the Consequences of COVID-19 Pan-Syndemic on Racial Health Inequalities and on Migrants

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Abstract

After examining the ecological-social origins of the novel Coronavirus and the features of Coronavirus crisis, the text analyses at the global level the COVID-19 related racial health inequalities and the impact of the pandemic on the health and working conditions of immigrant workers, asylum seekers, migrants. The text highlights a syndemic situation affecting them, which exacerbated and transformed inequalities that already existed, generating new ones, intertwining the old and the new.


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Submitted: Jan. 14, 2021 | Accepted: Feb. 10, 2021 | Published Oct. 27, 2021 | Language: en

Keywords Novel Coronavirus • Asylum seekers • Syndemics • Ecological rift • Racial inequalities • Migration • Inequalities • Health disparities • Immigrant workers

Copyright © 2021 Fabio Perocco. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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