Migration and Pandemics

Part I. Pandemic Borders, Belonging, and Exclusion.- 1. Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception: Migration and Membership During Pandemic Times (Anna Triandafyllidou).- 2. (In)Essential Bordering: Canada, COVID, and Mobility (Audrey Macklin).- 3. Territorial and Digital Borders and Migrant Vulnerability Under a Pandemic Crisis (Petra Molnar).- 4. Vulnerability and Resilience in the Covid-19 Crisis: Race, Gender, and Belonging (Eileen Boris).- 5. Sanctuary Cities and Covid-19: The Case of Canada (Mireille Paquet, Noémie Benoit, Idil Atak, Meghan Joy, Graham Hudson, and John Shields).- Part II. Pandemics and 'Essential' Migrants.- 6. Migrant Care Labour, Covid-19, and the Long-Term Care Crisis: Achieving Solidarity for Care Providers and Recipients (Lena Gahwi and Margaret Walton-Roberts).- 7. Pandemic Shock Absorbers: Domestic Workers' Activism at the Intersection of Immigrants' and Workers' Rights (Anna Rosinska and Elizabeth Pellerito).- 8. Essential Farmworkers and the Pandemic Crisis: Migrant Labour Conditions, and Legal and Political Responses in Italy and Spain (Alessandra Corrado and Letizia Palumbo).- 9. The Entangled Infrastructures of International Student Migration: Lessons from Covid-19 (Parvati Raghuram and Gunjan Sondhi).- 10. Voluntary and Forced Return Migration Under a Pandemic Crisis (Zeynep Sahin Mencutek).- 11. Return Migration from the Gulf Region to India Amidst COVID-19 (S Irudaya Rajan and H. Arokkiaraj).- 12. Internal Migration and the Covid-19 Pandemic in India (S Irudaya Rajan and R. B. Bhagat).

Anna Triandafyllidou holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada as of 1st August 2019. She was previously Robert Schuman Chair at the Global Governance Program of the European University Institute, Italy (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, 2012-2019) where she directed the Cultural Pluralism Research Area. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, Chair of the IMISCOE Editorial Committee, and member of the IMISCOE Board of Directors. She has been Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges between 2002 and 2018. She has held research and teaching positions in Italy, Belgium, the UK, the US, and Greece before moving to Canada.

Anna's recent books include: Routledge Handbook on the Governance of Religious Diversity (co-ed. with T. Magazzini, 2020); Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe (IMISCOE, co-ed. with S. Spencer, 2020); Migration and Globalisation Handbook (ed., 2018); Multicultural Governance in a Mobile World (ed., 2018). She is the author of Rethinking Migration and Return in Southeastern Europe (with E. Gemi, 2021), What is Europe? (with R. Gropas, 2015), Migrant Smuggling. Irregular Migration from Asia and Africa to Europe (with T. Maroukis, 2012), and Immigrants and National Identity in Europe (2001).