Webinar: Migrants, Displaced People and the COVID Crisis
Katie Dwyer
One of the most fundamental steps governments around the world have taken to slow the spread of COVID-19 has been to reduce human mobility. Through ‘lockdown’ or ‘stay-at-home’ orders, travel restrictions and border closures, public service and legal systems shut-downs, etc., the scramble to slow virus transmission has been (largely) swift and arduous. For a lucky few, these are merely an inconvenience, but for the millions of migrants and displaced scattered across the globe, these restrictions have been particularly severe. In this webinar, we will dive into why the pandemic’s impact on migrant and displaced communities is particularly harsh, with a focus on vulnerability in living conditions and work, health care and social safety net access, and extended impacts on the Global South and families through remittances.
As always, we will be joined by a stellar list of speakers including: Mark Cutts, Deputy Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Syria Crisis - United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA); May Romanos, Gulf Researcher, Migrant Rights - Amnesty International; Prof. Dr. Melissa Siegel, Professor & Head of Migration Studies - Maastricht Graduate School of Governance / United Nations University - MERIT; & Asli Salihoglu, DPhil Candidate in Migration Studies - University of Oxford COMPAS (Centre on Migration, Policy & Society). Our host will be Dr. Hugo Slim, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) at the Blavatnik School of Government & OCHR Chair.
