COVID-19 and Migration: Understanding the Pandemic and Human Mobility
About this ebook
“Covid-19 introduces new uncertainties for everyone. For agriculture, the longer term effects of the pandemic include faster mechanization, more guest workers, and rising imports. Responses are likely to vary by commodity and be shaped by government policies.”
– Philip L Martin, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis, USA
“The COVID-19 pandemic reminds us of just how many people across the world rely on mobility for their livelihood: taxi drivers, delivery workers, street vendors, maintenance technicians of long-distance operation systems, all employees in the hospitality sector… not forgetting the most vulnerable at this time, the homeless, beggars and street kids, especially in the global South, who have to move from place to place to get food, to find a place to sleep through the night, and to run away from police.”
– Biao Xiang, Professor of Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
Contents: CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION – Ibrahim Sirkeci and Jeffrey H. Cohen | CHAPTER 2. COVID-19 AND INTERNATIONAL LABOUR MIGRATION IN AGRICULTURE – Philip L. Martin | CHAPTER 3. HOSTAGES OF MOBILITY: TRANSPORT, SECURITIZATION AND STRESS DURING PANDEMIC – Biao Xiang | CHAPTER 4. MODELING AND PREDICTION OF THE 2019 CORONAVIRUS DISEASE SPREADING IN CHINA INCORPORATING HUMAN MIGRATION DATA – Choujun Zhan, Chi Kong Tse, Yuxia Fu, Zhikang Lai, Haijun Zhang | CHAPTER 5. THE STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF MOBILITY TRENDS ON THE STATISTICAL MODELS OF THE COVID-19 VIRUS SPREADING – David Gondauri and Mikheil Batiashvili | CHAPTER 6. HUMAN MOBILITY, COVID-19 AND POLICY RESPONSES: THE RIGHTS AND CLAIMS-MAKING OF MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS – Smriti Rao, Sarah Gammage, Julia Arnold and Elizabeth Anderson | CHAPTER 7. ‘UNWANTED BUT NEEDED’ IN SOUTH AFRICA: POST PANDEMIC IMAGINATIONS ON BLACK IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS OWNING SPAZA SHOPS – Sadhana Manik | CHAPTER 8. LABOUR MARKET AND MIGRATION OUTCOMES OF THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK IN MEXICO – Carla Pederzini Villarreal and Liliana Meza González | CHAPTER 9. REFLECTIONS ON COLLECTIVE INSECURITY AND VIRTUAL RESISTANCE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 IN MALAYSIA – Linda Alfarero Lumayag, Teresita C. Del Rosario and Frances S. Sutton | CHAPTER 10. FACING A PANDEMIC AWAY FROM HOME: COVID-19 AND THE BRAZILIAN IMMIGRANTS IN PORTUGAL – Patricia Posch and Rosa Cabecinhas | CHAPTER 11. MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION: UGANDA AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC – Agnes Igoye | CHAPTER 12. IMPACT OF COVID-19 HUMAN MOBILITY RESTRICTIONS ON THE MIGRANT ORIGIN POPULATION IN FINLAND – Natalia Skogberg, Idil Hussein and Anu E Castaneda | CHAPTER 13. REMITTANCES FROM MEXICAN MIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING COVID-19 – Rodolfo García Zamora and Selene Gaspar Olvera | CHAPTER 14. THE COVID-19, MIGRATION AND LIVELIHOOD IN INDIA: CHALLENGES AND POLICY ISSUES – R.B. Bhagat, Reshmi R.S., Harihar Sahoo, Archana K. Roy, Dipti Govil | CHAPTER 15. THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY IN A POST PANDEMIC WORLD: FORCED MIGRATION AND HEALTH – Monette Zard and Ling San Lau | CHAPTER 16. MULTILATERALISM FOR MOBILITY: INTERAGENCY COOPERATION IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD – Daniel Naujoks | CHAPTER 17. COVID-19, REMITTANCES AND REPERCUSSIONS – Melissa Siegel
About the author
Ibrahim Sirkeci, PhD, is Professor of Transnational Studies and Marketing, Head of Marketing Subject Cluster, Interim Assistant Dean for Research, Leader of PhD Programme and Director of Centre for Transnational Business and Management at Regent’s University London, UK. His research focuses on migration, insecurity, labour markets and remittances in the UK, Turkey, Iraq, and Germany. He has authored and edited many books and leads many journals including Migration Letters and Remittances Review. Ibrahim is also the chair of The Migration Conferences (TMC).
Jeffrey H. Cohen, PhD, is a professor of anthropology at The Ohio State University. His research on migration and economic development in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Turkey and China includes support from the National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, the Fulbright program. His books include The Cultures of Migration: The Global Nature of Contemporary Movement (2011) written with Ibrahim Sirkeci and named an outstanding title by Choice Reviews for 2012 and Eating Soup without a Spoon: Anthropological Theory and Method in the Real World (2015). He is co-editor of the journals Migration Letters and Remittance Reviews and is completing The Culture of Migration Handbook to be published in 2021by Edward Elgar.
