Migrants and refugees facing COVID-19: UK and Global concerns

COVID-19 is having a devastating impact across the world and on the most vulnerable.

This session will introduce external speakers whose work engages on issues of the Global South in a panel discussion on what the past seven months of COVID-19 have meant for refugees and those engaging in cross-continental migration.

Our speakers will focus on the types of response measures that are likely to be implemented by different actors (governments, non-government) to address migration and refugees trends and how these are likely to be changed as countries move from COVID-19 emergency response to recovery and the key principles that should be maintained to ensure that the rights of migrants and refugees are upheld.

Part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science (FoSS) 2020.

Speakers:

Emily Arnold-Fernandez, Founder and Executive Director of Asylum Access, USA

Dr Adriana Marcela Velasquez Morales, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences- FLACSO, Honduras

Dr Pia Riggirozzi, Global Politics, University of Southampton

Chair:

Dr Sara De Jong, Department of Politics, University of York.

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