Migration and Pandemics : : Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception.

• Superior document: IMISCOE Research Series
• Author: Triandafyllidou, Anna.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 pages)

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.