Migrants’ resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jannatul Ferdous and Ahsan Ullah Akm

Chapter 4 in Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities, 2025, pp 62-72 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Migrants are the most vulnerable group of people due to the nature of their employment and their status. While the risks associated with migration have been discussed, there is little evidence of a link between the adversity migrants face and resilience. There is research that show that migrant populations adapt a strategy to deal with all the challenges they face. This is referred to as resilience. The migrant population faced additional challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. They had to develop a new type of resilience to cope with new challenges. This chapter investigates how different their pandemic resilience strategies were. In general, migrants possessed more excellent resilience resources compared to non-migrants. Although migrants encountered more stressful events, trauma had a more significant influence on non-migrants’ mental health outcomes. Further investigation is required to ascertain the temporal and cross-national variability of resilience and the strategies for fostering resilience in traumatised migrants.

Keywords: COVID-19; Migrant; Resilience; Pandemic; Economic Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035301225
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