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COVID-19 responses restricted abilities and aspirations for mobility and migration: insights from diverse cities in four continents
Jolivet, Dominique; Fransen, Sonja; Adger, William Neil et al.
2023In Humanities & social sciences communications, 10 (1)
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Keywords :
General Economics, Econometrics and Finance; General Psychology; General Social Sciences; General Arts and Humanities; General Business, Management and Accounting
Abstract :
[en] AbstractResearch on the impacts of COVID-19 on mobility has focused primarily on the increased health vulnerabilities of involuntary migrant and displaced populations. But virtually all migration flows have been truncated and altered because of reduced economic and mobility opportunities of migrants. Here we use a well-established framework of migration decision-making, whereby individual decisions combine the aspiration and ability to migrate, to explain how public responses to the COVID-19 pandemic alter migration patterns among urban populations across the world. The principal responses to COVID-19 pandemic that affected migration are: 1) through travel restrictions and border closures, 2) by affecting abilities to move through economic and other means, and 3) by affecting aspirations to move. Using in-depth qualitative data collected in six cities in four continents (Accra, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dhaka, Maputo, and Worcester), we explore how populations with diverse levels of education and occupations were affected in their current and future mobility decisions. We use data from interviews with sample of internal and international migrants and non-migrants during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic outbreak to identify the mechanisms through which the pandemic affected their mobility decisions. The results show common processes across the different geographical contexts: individuals perceived increased risks associated with further migration, which affected their migration aspirations, and had reduced abilities to migrate, all of which affected their migration decision-making processes. The results also reveal stark differences in perceived and experienced migration decision-making across precarious migrant groups compared to high-skilled and formally employed international migrants in all settings. This precarity of place is particularly evident in low-income marginalised populations.
Research center :
Observatoire Hugo
Disciplines :
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Author, co-author :
Jolivet, Dominique
Fransen, Sonja 
Adger, William Neil 
Fábos, Anita 
Abu, Mumuni
Allen, Charlotte
Boyd, Emily 
Carr, Edward R. 
Codjoe, Samuel Nii Ardey
Gavonel, Maria Franco 
Gemenne, François  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie
Rocky, Mahmudol Hasan
Lantz, Jozefina
Maculule, Domingos
de Campos, Ricardo Safra
Siddiqui, Tasneem
Zickgraf, Caroline  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Service de géographie rurale (Laboratoire pour l'analyse des lieux, des paysages et des campagnes européennes LAPLEC)
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Language :
English
Title :
COVID-19 responses restricted abilities and aspirations for mobility and migration: insights from diverse cities in four continents
Publication date :
18 May 2023
Journal title :
Humanities & social sciences communications
eISSN :
2662-9992
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume :
10
Issue :
1
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Development Goals :
11. Sustainable cities and communities
10. Reduced inequalities
Name of the research project :
MISTY
Funders :
Belmont Forum [UY]
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