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Inclusion of Migrants in Covid-19 Interventions – Lessons Learned from Africa

Yossra Kallali — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:45:28 +0000

During the COVID-19 pandemic, governments struggled to respond quickly and efficiently to a changing epidemiological context. To handle crises better, key populations, such as migrants, should be involved in the prevention and intervention strategies. Research on vaccine rollouts in Ethiopia, Tunisia, and South Africa found that civil society groups were

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Comment les urgences de santé publique précédentes peuvent-elles nous aider à comprendre les restrictions de voyage liées au COVID-19 ?

Jelena Dzankic — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:00:35 +0000

Avant même le début de la pandémie de COVID-19, les recherches sur les restrictions à la mobilité dans le contexte des urgences de santé publique avaient déjà mis en évidence quelques informations clés. Nous savons, par exemple, que les restrictions de voyage sont motivées par des considérations épidémiologiques, diplomatiques et

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How Can Previous Public Health Emergencies Help Us Understand the COVID-19 Travel Restrictions?

Jelena Dzankic — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:37:10 +0000

Even before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, research on restrictions to mobility in the context of public health emergencies had already highlighted a few key insights. We know, for example, that travel restrictions are driven by epidemiological, diplomatic and economic considerations; they cause major disruptions; and different communities use

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COVID-19 et migration interne : Leçons de l’expérience indienne

Pranav Kuttaiah — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 08:30:38 +0000

Alors que les discours sur la migration se concentrent souvent sur les frontières internationales et les réfugié·e·s, la première vague de la pandémie de COVID-19 a mis en lumière la migration interne. C’est ce qui s’est passé en Inde, où le statut en matière de logement et d’emploi, la caste,

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COVID-19 and Internal Migration: Lessons from India

Pranav Kuttaiah — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 08:30:40 +0000

While the discourse on migration often focuses mainly on international borders and refugees, the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic brought internal migration to the fore. Such was the case in India where housing and employment status, caste, religion, gender and ethnicity seemed to dictate how city residents chose to

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Le défi de la légitimité : Communiquer sur la restriction de la mobilité pendant la pandémie

Marie-Eve Bélanger — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 08:30:18 +0000

Face à la pandémie de COVID-19, les gouvernements du monde entier ont réagi en imposant des restrictions incisives de la mobilité des personnes. Dans des sociétés libérales profondément interdépendantes, ces restrictions de mobilité ont un coût social et économique important. L’incapacité à justifier et à légitimer ces restrictions incisives des libertés

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Crisis Communication on Twitter: The Case of Switzerland

Marie-Eve Bélanger — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:05:40 +0000

In COVID times, one of the challenges of the “new normal” has been to communicate the importance of a set of very unusual and stringent rules that populations must follow to contribute to the preservation of their health and public safety. How did the Swiss government and political elites use

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Migration and Mobility During COVID-19: What the Swiss General Public Thinks

Carlo Knotz — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:30:57 +0000

Switzerland severely restricted movements across and within its borders to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. How supportive were the Swiss residents of these measures? And who did they think should still be allowed to enter Switzerland even when the borders were generally closed? The results show that Swiss residents support

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Non-Citizen Voting Rights: A New European Network

Katrin Sontag — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:30:29 +0000

As borders closed and countries shifted to a national focus, establishing lockdowns and social distancing measures, these extraordinary circumstances actually sped up the creation of a new network linking six initiatives in different European countries striving to obtain voting rights for residents without the local citizenship. Current debates and protests

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Has COVID-19 Increased Solidarity Towards Foreigners in Switzerland?

Philippe Wanner — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 07:30:21 +0000

The COVID-19 crisis has had various economic and social consequences in Switzerland, particularly on the most vulnerable populations. At the same time, internationally mobile populations were also affected by border closures. Therefore, it is no wonder that among the questions that emerged were the attitudes and reactions of the native

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