What the COVID-19 Outbreak Tells Us about Migration

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4821
dc.contributor.author	Attanasio Paolo
dc.title	What the COVID-19 Outbreak Tells Us about Migration
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This chapter looks at the impact that the recent outbreak of COVID-19 is having on asylum seekers, as well as foreign workers and residents on the European continent, with a special focus on Italy. It describes the critical situation in the refugee camps at the South-Eastern borders of the EU (i.e., the Greek-Turkish border and former Yugoslavia) and the outbreaks of xenophobia that have been reported by NGOs and international relief organizations working in and around the camps. The paper also briefly looks at the present situation of migrant workers in Italy on the basis of the currently available figures, describing the impact of the COVID-19 and the subsequent regularization introduced by the Government. The concluding remarks point out that the Coronavirus crisis puts at risk the living conditions of countless vulnerable households, and could unleash a new wave of migration of people in search for better living conditions. It is therefore necessary that both governmental policies and citizens’ attitude vis-à-vis migration adapt themselves to the global changes imposed by the pandemic.
dc.relation.ispartof	Società e trasformazioni sociali
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-10-27
dc.dateAccepted	2021-07-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-10-09
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-533-9/what-the-covid-19-outbreak-tells-us-about-migratio/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-532-2/011
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9085
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9689
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-533-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-532-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Agriculture
dc.subject	Agriculture
dc.subject	Asylum
dc.subject	Asylum
dc.subject	Caregiving
dc.subject	Caregiving
dc.subject	Coronavirus
dc.subject	Coronavirus
dc.subject	Employment
dc.subject	Employment
dc.subject	Ethnicity
dc.subject	Ethnicity
dc.subject	Migration
dc.subject	Migration
dc.subject	Regularisation
dc.subject	Regularisation

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What the COVID-19 Outbreak Tells Us about Migration

Paolo Attanasio Centro Studi e Ricerche IDOS - FVG

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abstract

This chapter looks at the impact that the recent outbreak of COVID-19 is having on asylum seekers, as well as foreign workers and residents on the European continent, with a special focus on Italy. It describes the critical situation in the refugee camps at the South-Eastern borders of the EU (i.e., the Greek-Turkish border and former Yugoslavia) and the outbreaks of xenophobia that have been reported by NGOs and international relief organizations working in and around the camps. The paper also briefly looks at the present situation of migrant workers in Italy on the basis of the currently available figures, describing the impact of the COVID-19 and the subsequent regularization introduced by the Government. The concluding remarks point out that the Coronavirus crisis puts at risk the living conditions of countless vulnerable households, and could unleash a new wave of migration of people in search for better living conditions. It is therefore necessary that both governmental policies and citizens’ attitude vis-à-vis migration adapt themselves to the global changes imposed by the pandemic.

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Oct. 27, 2021

Accepted

July 23, 2021

Submitted

Oct. 9, 2020

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978-88-6969-533-9

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-532-2

Keywords: Coronavirus • Employment • Ethnicity • Migration • Agriculture • Regularisation • Caregiving • Asylum

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