Libal Kathryn, Harding Scott, Popescu Marciana, Berthold S Megan, Felten Grace
School of Social Work and Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, Connecticut, Hartford USA.
School of Social Work, University of Connecticut, Connecticut, Hartford USA.
J Hum Rights Soc Work. 2021;6(2):148-160. doi: 10.1007/s41134-021-00162-4. Epub 2021 Mar 19.
The question of human mobility is inextricably tied to the COVID-19 pandemic that started in late 2019 and whose effects continue to unfold. Human mobility-especially with global advances in transportation and interconnectedness-is an important factor in the spread of the pandemic. Yet, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the millions of people forced to migrate for safety and economic reasons has received little attention. In this article, we provide an overview of human rights challenges that forced migrants currently face during this pandemic. While we do not address all dimensions of the impact COVID-19, we highlight several troubling situations that have emerged for refugees and asylum seekers. These include entry restrictions into some countries that had formerly welcomed asylum seekers, overt and covert forms of exclusion of migrants from labor markets due to rising unemployment and economic hardship, and implementing new deportation policies, as well as new exclusionary policies for immigrants who would have been authorized to work in past. Without concerted efforts to amplify solidarity with all forced migrants and ensure their human rights, discriminatory and restrictionist policies enacted in the Global North over the past decade will become entrenched. As a result, fewer refugees and asylum seekers will be accorded protection and continue to face violence and persecution in their home countries.
人口流动问题与始于2019年末且影响仍在持续显现的新冠疫情紧密相连。人口流动，尤其是随着全球交通和互联互通的发展，是疫情传播的一个重要因素。然而，新冠疫情对数百万因安全和经济原因被迫迁移的人的影响却很少受到关注。在本文中，我们概述了当前被迫移民在这场疫情中面临的人权挑战。虽然我们没有涉及新冠疫情影响的所有方面，但我们强调了难民和寻求庇护者出现的几种令人不安的情况。这些情况包括一些以前欢迎寻求庇护者的国家实施入境限制，由于失业率上升和经济困难而出现的公开和隐蔽形式的将移民排除在劳动力市场之外的情况，以及实施新的驱逐政策，还有针对过去本可被授权工作的移民的新的排他性政策。如果不做出一致努力来增强对所有被迫移民的团结并确保他们的人权，过去十年在全球北方地区制定的歧视性和限制主义政策将会根深蒂固。结果，将有更少的难民和寻求庇护者得到保护，并继续在其祖国面临暴力和迫害。
