Migration and cities amidst COVID-19 crisis

S. Irudaya Rajan

Chapter 1 in Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities, 2025, pp 2-25 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter provides an overview of the contributions that comprise this handbook. It contextualises its contributions against the backdrop of the prevalent scholarship on the trifecta of cities, migration, and the pandemic. Despite extensive literature on one or more of these themes, the intersections of these three aspects are particularly underexplored. This is especially glaring, given the increasing recognition of the impact of the pandemic on migrants in cities. After this exhaustive survey of existing literature, the second part provides an overview of each chapter of this volume, organised under certain broad themes. Firstly, it provides a systemic perspective on the myriad modes of negotiations of migrant workers with the pandemic globally. Secondly, it zooms in, highlighting various individual case studies across global regions that illustrate the impact of the pandemic on internal and international migration patterns. Thirdly, this work casts a spotlight on the space of the city in the pandemic-migrant nexus, focussing on migration governance issues. Some of the contributions explore critical questions like migrants’ access to various services as well as food crises, mediated by the pandemic. The responses to migration management and operational perspectives for change are also explored in some of the chapters. Finally, the volume supplements these contributions by providing interesting instances of migrant management and local and municipal responses to natural disasters other than the pandemic. The final section of this handbook commences a conversation towards a post-pandemic future.

Keywords: Pandemic; Cities; Natural Disasters; Migration Management; International Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035301225
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