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 language | English |
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Pages | 1-4 |
State | Published - Nov 2020 |
Event | Covid-19 and Systemic Resilience: What role for migrant workers?: online conference - Fiesole, Italia, Italy Duration: 9 Nov 2020 → 9 Nov 2020 |
Conference
Conference | Covid-19 and Systemic Resilience: What role for migrant workers? |
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Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Fiesole, Italia |
Period | 9/11/20 → 9/11/20 |
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.