Coronavirus sheds light on Canada's poor treatment of migrant workers
Covid-19 has surged on farms that employ foreign workers, aided by a lack of legal protections and shoddy oversight.
Hilary Beaumont
July 20, 2020 - The Guardian

Cox's Bazar refugee camps: where social distancing is impossible
Social distancing simply isn’t possible for the 1 million Rohingya refugees who live in Cox’s Bazar refugee camp, in southeastern Bangladesh. Most of the Rohingya refugees living in the camp fled there in 2017, following a brutal crackdown by the Myanmar military. On top of psychological trauma, many have underlying health conditions that leave them especially vulnerable to Covid-19.
Rebecca Ratcliffe, Liz Ford, Lydia McMullan, Pablo Gutiérrez and Garry Blight
June 29, 2020 - The Guardian

Calling Out the Law with a Lie: Community Perspectives on Precarity, Welfare and Law in Times of Covid-19 in Sweden
The precarity that many young people who have sought asylum in Sweden experience is currently exacerbated as a result of Covid-19. How is Covid-19 affecting young people living with precarious immigration status in Sweden and the community organizations working to support them? What are the potential legal implications of the pandemic on the possibilities for these young people to regularize or to make their immigration status more secure?
Hanna Scott
June 29, 2020 - Border Criminologies of the University of Oxford

African Migrants in Yemen Scapegoated for Coronavirus Outbreak
Wealthy Arabian Gulf countries depend on migrant workers to clean their homes, care for their children, herd their animals, and do their manual labor. Each year, over 100,000 East Africans pay smugglers in a desperate attempt to make the perilous journey, which is one of the fastest growing migrant routes worldwide. Houthi militias in northern Yemen are now brutally forcing migrants out of their territory and into dangerous situations, as authorities stigmatize African migrants as carriers of  COVID-19.
Vivian Yee and Tiksa Negeri
June 28, 2020 - The New York Times

Past pandemics exacerbated disadvantages – what we can learn from them about the coronavirus recovery
Tracing back past pandemics, Peter Frankopan highlights lessons to be learned in the similarity of patterns of the different outbreaks and how these increased disadvantages and correlated closely with violence, intolerance, and racism.
Peter Frankopan
June 26, 2020 - The Conversation

Migration and Mobility after the 2020 Pandemic: The End of an Age?
The world is still in an almost total lockdown on human mobility and migration, as governments fight the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic. What lasting effects will these lockdowns have on migration and mobility? Have we reached the end of the age of migration? Alan Gamlen suggests ten key questions to guide migration and mobility research in the wake of the 2020 Pandemic.
Alan Gamlen
June 3, 2020 - Compas

Interactive Dashboard with Key Findings of the COVID Survey

The COVID survey was conducted between April 22 and May 4, 2020 with 1'535 people living in Switzerland. This online tool presents some key findings and allows you to explore the data yourself.
Carlo Knotz, Mia Gandenberger, Philipp Trein, Flavia Fossati and Giuliano Bonoli
May 27, 2020 - Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) & University of Lausanne

Mobility and Border Control in Response to the COVID-19 Outbreak 
We track the closure of the borders and the restrictions on mobility that 29 European governments implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19. (infographics) 
Aurélie Pont, Christina Mittmasser, Frowin Rausis, Oliver Pedersen, Lorenzo Piccoli, Paula Hoffmeyer, Petra Sidler
Weekly updates - The nccr – on the move

Covid-19 and the sudden death of free movement
Lorenzo Piccoli, Scientic Officer of the the nccr - on the move, talks about restrictions on mobility in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 16, 2020 - The Borders of Equality Podcast

Covid-19 crisis stokes European tensions over migrant labour
Farmers risk losing harvests but populists are seeking to cash in on fears of foreigners taking jobs.
Rory Carroll, Sam Jones, Lorenzo Tondo, Kate Connolly and Kit Gillet
May 11, 2020 - The Guardian

Immunity passports – unwise and unnecessary

Governments are considering ‘immunity passports’ to allow those with COVID-19 antibodies greater mobility: this would lead to mass discrimination in the labor market, and also provide perverse incentives to potential migrants to become infected.
Bernhard Perchinig
May 8, 2020 - International Center for Migration Policy Development

“The less we move, the more we can contain the virus”: How COVID-19 fundamentally alters understandings of mobility and the free movement of people
Physical distancing has proved to be necessary to prevent contagion. However, the measures to enforce it have framed mobility as a danger and as a problem, and have increased the inequalities of mobility.
Leiza Brumat
May 6, 2020 - MPC Blog

Immigration in the age of covid
The UK risks having too few immigrants in sectors that will be crucial to recovery: cleaners, drivers, health and social workers, restaurant staff, teachers.
Jonathan Portes
April 29, 2020 - Politics.co.uk

The coronavirus pandemic could be devastating for the world's migrants 
This crisis is an opportunity for the world to show empathy and demonstrate solidarity towards migrants.
Marie McAuliffe, Céline Bauloz
April 28, 2020 - openDemocracy

The global COVID-19 response must include refugees and migrants
The COVID-19 outbreak also sheds light on pre-existing challenges, such as the refugee crisis converging with the pandemic.
Julia Brandenberger, Alberine Baauw, Alexandra Kruse, Nicole Ritz
April 28, 2020 - Swiss Medical Weekly

Covid-19 and enduring stigma
In the pandemic, populists and campaigners are currently stirring up prejudice against migrants and blaming them for the spread of the virus.
Steven Vertovec
April 27, 2020 - The Max Planck Society

Human mobility and human rights in the COVID-19 pandemic: Principles of protection for migrants, refugees, and other displaced persons
A list of principles from international treaties and instruments, customary international law, decisions of UN treaty bodies, and guidelines widely accepted by the international community that are offered to inform and guide State action, to assist international organizations, and to provide a basis for advocacy and education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Zolberg Institute
April 25, 2020 - Zolberg Institute

How has the pandemic affected migrants and refugees?
The Coronavirus pandemic has led to restrictions on movement for everyone. How has the politics and policy of migration and asylum in Europe been affected? Interview with Catherine Woollard, Secretary General of the European Council on Refugees and Exiles.
Clara Sandelind
April 25, 2020 - Talking Migration -  Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield

Transformed privileges of im/mobility and COVID-19
The transformed privileges of im/mobility as a result of COVID-19 invite us to reflect on who can be im/mobile, in and through which spaces, how im/mobility is currently enforced, and how it is embodied.
Hannah Schling, Marcia Vera Espinoza, Kavita Datta
April 22, 2020 - Im/mobility in Coronatimes Blog of  the School of Geography - Queen Mary University of London

Contagion and containment - Curtailing the freedom of movement in times of coronavirus
Overwhelmed and underserved camps are in no condition to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks. The European Union’s response so far is falling short in protecting refugees from the pandemic.
Kenny Cupers
April 15, 2020 - Eurozine

International Travel Restrictions in Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak
We track the closure of the borders that governments implemented to contain the spread of COVID-19. (infographics)
Jelena Dzankic, Lorenzo Piccoli and Andreas Perret
Regular updates - The nccr – on the move

Inequality at the Border: How Visa Costs Penalize Citizens of Poor World Regions
COVID-19 can leave its scars on the openness of borders and travel authorizations: in the future, visa policies and visa costs may change to filter would-be visitors.
Ettore Recchi and Emanuel Deutschmann
April 15, 2020 - MPC Blog

Expert Voice: COVID-19 – Migration in the Age of Biosecurity
COVID-19 is doing to travel and migration what the 2008 financial crash did to banks and the flow of capital: instead of a ‘credit crunch’, the world economy is crippled by a global mobility shutdown.
Hugo Brady
April 3, 2020 - The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD)

From national threat to oblivion. Erasing migrants from public discourse in Italy during COVID-19
Italy is now more closed than Matteo Salvini ever dreamt it would be: Prevention is focused on citizens, but ‘stay at home’ orders are a mockery for asylum seekers and homeless people, whose servicing is becoming impossible.
Chiara Pagano
April 2, 2020 - Eurozine

Living with the new coronavirus: learning from pastoralists
The COVID-19 generates uncertainties we seem unable to bear and manage. There are mobile communities which have been living with such uncertainty and related stresses and shocks for centuries: pastoralists. What can we learn from them?
Michele Nori
April 2, 2020 - EUIIdeas Blog of the European University Institute

The Coronavirus and Mobility Forum
How can a mobility perspective shed light on the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, and what can we learn about mobilities throughout the pandemic and for the future?
Biao Xiang
Regular updates - April 2, 2020 - The Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) of the University of Oxford

The limits of protection, prevention and care. A miniseries on refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic
Eurozine launches a miniseries to report on refugees’ situation on the EU’s frontiers.
Bilgin Ayata
March 31, 2020 - Eurozine

Returning “Home”–Nationalist International Law in the Time of the Coronavirus
During the coronavirus epidemic many "émigrés," particularly those with the privilege of mobility, have sought refuge in their country of origin. Remarkably, states have gone out of their way to repatriate nationals, while further closing borders to foreigners.
Frederic Mégret
March 30, 2020 - OpinioJuris

Deadly Consequences of "Business as Usual" and Immigration Enforcement

As COVID-19 rapidly advances across the country, life continues as usual for the 38,000 immigrants who are detained in the US, including approximately 7,000 children.
Katherine Kaufka Walts
March 30, 2020 - Youth Circulations Blog

How Will the COVID-19 Pandemic Reshape Refugee and Migration Governance?
Public responses to COVID-19 push those in an already precarious position towards further marginalization in terms of removal/isolation from the rest of the population.
Kristin B. Sandvik and Adèle Garnier
March 27, 2020 - The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Beating Covid-19: The problem with national lockdowns
Lockdowns have now become a fact of life for many countries across the world, but even if they succeed in halting the spread of COVID-19, are they sustainable?
Martin J. Bull 

March 26, 2020 - LSE EUROPP – European Politics and Policy Blog

We created this beast. The political ecology of COVID-19

Containment measures of social distancing bear the characteristics of a general strike, it can serve as an experiment taking back control over our own time.
Bram Ieven and Jan Overwijk
March 23, 2020 - Eurozine

How the Virus Got Out
Why the most extensive travel restrictions to stop an outbreak in human history haven’t been enough?
(infographics)
Jin Wu, Weiyi Cai, Derek Watkins and James Glanz
March 22, 2020 - The New York Times

The pandemic kills also the European solidarity
Border controls put in place in Europe to limit the spread of COVID-19 give the impression that governments have only marginally considered the information available regarding the infection situation and have not cooperated with each other.
Constantin Hruschka
March 20, 2020 - EU Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy Blog

‘Take me home’: the coronavirus virus and panic mobility

Panic mobility is a phenomenon in which humans act as somewhat unwitting vectors of lethal viruses by moving rapidly away from known sites of infection in significant numbers.
Robin Cohen
March 20, 2020 - The Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) of the University of Oxford

Migrant integration in times of the lockdown. Some reflections from Italy

How will the pandemic impact ethnic boundary-making and migrant integration?
Ferruccio Pastore
March 20, 2020 - TRAFIG, Transnational Figurations of Displacement

Borders in the Time of Coronavirus: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Upended the Global Mobility Paradigm

As countries of the Global South are closing off their borders, Europeans must confront national frontiers once again, a reality that they have long felt had become obsolete. 
Gilda Borriello and Asli Salihoglu
March 20, 2020 - The Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) of the University of Oxford

Will Covid-19 be the end of the global citizen?

We are now pandemic citizens, increasingly stuck inside closed nation-states surrounded by contradictory new walls and old borders.
Igor Calzada
March 19, 2020 - Apolitical

Travel Bans in Europe: A Legal Appraisal

Since many European countries have closed down their borders to limit the spread of COVID-19, the European Commission should assist them to clarify categories of (il)legitimate travel, defining procedural standards and elucidate documentation requirements.
Daniel Thym
March 19, 2020 - Verfassungsblog

Mobility: the lifeblood of modernity and the virus that threatens to undo it

The virus makes certain aspects of our normal, taken-for-granted and never questioned mobile worlds visible; but it also threatens to undo it altogether.
Tim Cresswell
March 18, 2020 - The Mobile Lives Forum

Coronavirus: A (missed) chance to rethink racism?
In Italy, COVID-19 became a political instrument reproducing the idea of racism as prejudice.
Domiziana Turcatti
March 18, 2020 - The Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) of the University of Oxford

A Sudden Bankruptcy of Mobility Capital? The Paradoxical Effects of Pandemics on Human Movement

Do the current disruptions to human movement reverse or rather further reinforce inequalities?
Lorenzo Piccoli and Joelle Moret
March 17, 2020 - The nccr – on the move Blog

Rights in a time of quarantine

Mass restrictions on internal movement are unlikely to violate the right to free movement but pose problems in respect of the right to liberty.
Niall Coghlan
March 17, 2020 - The UK Human Rights Blog

The Great Immobility
We will learn many lessons from the current restrictions to our taken-for-granted forms of mobility.
Alex Aleinikoff

March 17, 2020 - Public Seminar

Covid-19: GCC states must take careful steps to protect migrant workers
What measures are being taken to protect the rights of vulnerable seasonal workers?
Migrant-rights

March 15, 2020 - Migrant-Rights.org

Coronavirus: citizenship infected
The recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus shows the role citizenship plays in the context of public health responses to emergencies, including evacuations and quarantines, travel and socio-cultural constraints.
Jelena Dzankic and Lorenzo Piccoli
March 13, 2020 - Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT)

COVID-19 outbreak response: first assessment of mobility changes in Italy following lockdown
Following the national lockdown of Italy on March 9, the mobility fluxes between provinces have decreased by 50% or more, everywhere in the country.
Emanuele Pepe, Paolo Bajardi, Laetitia Gauvin, Filippo Privitera, Ciro Cattuto, Michele Tizzoni
March 13, 2020 - COVID-19 Mobility Monitoring project

From Chain Reaction to Grid Reaction: Mobilities & Restrictions during SARS & Coronavirus
The COVID-19 epidemic and the subsequent responses are particularly impactful because they abruptly halt what we may call a “mobility economy”. What were the implications in China?
Biao Xiang

March 12, 2020 - Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) of the University of Oxford

Human Rights and Coronavirus: What’s at Stake for Truth, Trust, and Democracy?

Human rights protections, democracy, and multilateralism cannot be an afterthought in epidemics.
Alicia Ely Yamin and Roojin Habibi
March 1, 2020 - Health and Human Rights Journal