Precarious systemic resilience: Venezuelan immigration and COVID-19 in the Andean region

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Abstract

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, migrants and refugees have played a crucial role as essential workers around the world, often in jobs typically deemed as “low- skilled” (Gelatt, 2020; ODI, 2020). As supermarket workers, caregivers, but also as health care professionals their contribution to crisis responses has been documented in many high-income countries.1 Migrants and refugees also helped dealing with the pandemic in South American countries, which have welcomed most of the 5 million Venezuelan migrants who left in recent years (RMRP, 2020). However, we will argue that their potential has been heavily underutilized.
Original languageEnglish
Pages1-4
StatePublished - Nov 2020
EventCovid-19 and Systemic Resilience: What role for migrant workers?: online conference - Fiesole, Italia, Italy
Duration: 9 Nov 20209 Nov 2020

Conference

ConferenceCovid-19 and Systemic Resilience: What role for migrant workers?
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityFiesole, Italia
Period9/11/209/11/20

Bibliographical note

"Commentary No. 5 of the MigResHub at the Migration Policy Centre, RSCAS, European University Institute."

With the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

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