Migration and pandemics : spaces of solidarity and spaces of exception

This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe, and Asia.Part 1. Pandemic Borders, Belonging and Exclusion. -- 1. Introduction: Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception: Migration at the times of COVID-19 (Anna Triandafyllidou). -- 2. Who is Essential (Migrant) Worker and Why (Audrey Macklin). -- 3. Territorial and Digital Borders and Migrant Vulnerability under a Pandemic Crisis (Petra Molnar). -- 4. Vulnerability and Resilience in the Covid19 Crisis: Race, Gender, and Belonging (Eileen Boris). -- 5. Sanctuary, Cities and COVID-19: Montreal in Comparative Perspective (Mireille Paquet).- Part 2. Pandemics and ‘Essential’ Migrants. -- 6. Migrant Nurses and Doctors and the Pandemic: Insights from Canada (Margaret Walton Roberts). -- 7. Voluntary and Forced Return Migration under a Pandemic Crisis (Zeynep Sahin Mençutek). -- 8. Essential Farmworkers and Pandemic Crisis: Insights from Southern Europe (Letizia Palumbo and Alessandra Corrado). -- 9. Mobilities Interrupted, Delayed, Suspended: International Student Migrants and the Pandemic (Parvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi). -- 10. Return Migration from the Gulf Region to India Amidst COVID-19 (S. Irudaya Rajan and H. Arrokiaraj). -- 11. Migrant Domestic and Care Workers: Challenges in Europe, US and Latin America under Covid19 (Sabrina Marchetti and Anna Rosinska). -- 12. Internal Migration and the COVID-19 Pandemic in India (S. Irudaya Rajan and R. B. Bhagat