Migration and Pandemics : Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception.
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| Language: | English |
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2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Migration and Pandemics
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Editor
- Contributors
- About the Editor and Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Part I: Pandemic Borders, Belonging, and Exclusion
- Chapter 1: Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception: Migration and Membership During Pandemic Times
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Membership, Responsibility, and Solidarity in Pandemic Times
- 1.3 Selective Openings and Closures: Essential Work and Frontline Migrant Workers
- 1.4 The Contents of this Volume
- References
- Chapter 2: (In)Essential Bordering: Canada, COVID, and Mobility
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The Unexceptional Border
- 2.3 Essential Connections
- 2.3.1 Essential Movement
- 2.3.2 The US and Everywhere Else
- 2.4 Citizens and Permanent Residents
- 2.5 Foreign Nationals in Canada
- 2.5.1 Workers
- 2.5.2 International Students
- 2.6 Family Members
- 2.7 Seasonal Agricultural Workers
- 2.8 Asylum Seekers and Refugees
- 2.9 Pandemic Pathways to Permanent Residence
- 2.10 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Chapter 3: Territorial and Digital Borders and Migrant Vulnerability Under a Pandemic Crisis
- 3.1 Introduction: The Harmful Ecosystem of Migration Management Technologies
- 3.2 Real World Impacts of Technological Experiments in Pandemic Times
- 3.3 Human Rights Ramifications of Migration- and Covid-Tech
- 3.4 Politics, Pandemics, and Privatisation of Migratory Spaces
- 3.5 Pandemics at the Frontier: Greek Refugee Camps in the Age of Surveillance
- 3.6 Big Tech and Big Profit in the Privatisation of Migration Management
- 3.7 Concluding Remarks: Surveillance Panacea or Safety and Health for All?
- References
- Chapter 4: Vulnerability and Resilience in the Covid-19 Crisis: Race, Gender, and Belonging
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Blaming Migrants: The Vulnerable Past.
- 4.3 Cruel Treatments: Detained Migrants and Essential Workers
- 4.4 Resiliency
- 4.5 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Chapter 5: Sanctuary Cities and Covid-19: The Case of Canada
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Sanctuary Cities
- 5.3 Sanctuary Cities in Canada
- 5.4 Pandemic Risks for Non-status and Precarious Migrants in Canada
- 5.5 Canadian Sanctuary Cities After COVID-19
- 5.6 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Part II: Pandemics and 'Essential' Migrants
- Chapter 6: Migrant Care Labour, Covid-19, and the Long-Term Care Crisis: Achieving Solidarity for Care Providers and Recipients
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Long-Term Care as a Social Justice Matter
- 6.3 Global Care Chains and the Transnationalisation of Care Work
- 6.4 Financing Long-Term Care and the Rise of Privatisation
- 6.5 'Conditions of Work are the Conditions of Care': Ontario and the LTC Crisis During the Pandemic
- 6.6 Migrant Care Labour in LTC: Status, Skill Mix, and Conditions of Work and Care
- 6.7 Bearing Witness to the Crisis in Pandemic Times
- References
- Chapter 7: Pandemic Shock Absorbers: Domestic Workers' Activism at the Intersection of Immigrants' and Workers' Rights
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Methods
- 7.3 Domestic Workers in the US at the Intersection of Race, Class, and Ethnicity
- 7.4 Being a Domestic Worker in the US Under the Pandemic: Impact on the Ground and the Relief Measures Excluding Domestic Workers
- 7.5 Domestic Workers' Activism in the US
- 7.6 Domestic Workers' Activism Under the Pandemic. Addressing the Old Problems and the Covid-19-Related Challenges
- 7.6.1 Service Delivery
- 7.6.2 Popular Education
- 7.6.3 Organising
- 7.6.4 Political Advocacy
- 7.7 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Chapter 8: Essential Farmworkers and the Pandemic Crisis: Migrant Labour Conditions, and Legal and Political Responses in Italy and Spain.
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Agri-Food Restructuring, Imbalances of Power, and Renewed Agrarian Conflicts
- 8.3 Migration Policies, Migrant Labour Composition, and Working Conditions
- 8.4 The Pandemic's Effects on the Agri-Food Sector and Migrant Labour Conditions
- 8.5 Legal and Political Responses to Address Migrant Farm Workers' Situations of Vulnerability During the Pandemic
- 8.6 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Chapter 9: The Entangled Infrastructures of International Student Migration: Lessons from Covid-19
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Covid-19 and Infrastructures of International Student Migration
- 9.3 Studying International Student Migrants During Covid-19: Digital Methods
- 9.4 Migration Infrastructures and Failure
- 9.5 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Chapter 10: Voluntary and Forced Return Migration Under a Pandemic Crisis
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 An Overview of Return Migration Scholarship
- 10.3 Returning Home in Times of Crisis
- 10.4 The Pandemic's Impact on the Acceleration of Returns
- 10.5 Logistics of Returns for Stranded Migrants: The IOM's Interventions
- 10.6 Reasons of Return
- 10.7 Challenges Faced During and After Return
- 10.8 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Chapter 11: Return Migration from the Gulf Region to India Amidst COVID-19
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Differing Paths, Differing Problems
- 11.3 Assistance Amidst Travel Restrictions
- 11.4 Vande Bharat Mission (VBM)
- 11.5 Case Study: Undocumented Indian Workers in Kuwait During COVID-19
- 11.6 Rehabilitation and Beyond: Is There a Model in Place?
- 11.7 A Kerala Model of Rehabilitation?
- 11.8 Concluding Remarks
- 11.9 Postscript
- References
- Chapter 12: Internal Migration and the Covid-19 Pandemic in India
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Internal Migration in India: Size and Characteristics
- 12.3 Temporary and Seasonal Migration.
- 12.4 The Government Response: Story of Missteps and Half-Measures
- 12.4.1 Central Government Response
- 12.4.2 State-Level Responses
- Policy Responses in Receiving States
- Policy Responses in Sending States
- 12.5 Missed Opportunities for Reform: The Structures that Impede Migrants
- 12.5.1 Inadequacy of Legislation for Migrant Workers
- Migrants and the Right to Amenities
- The Invisibilisation of Dependents
- 12.6 Concluding Remarks: Away Forward to Migration and Inclusive Policy
- 12.7 Postscript
- References.