Research Handbook on Migration, Gender, and COVID-19

Edited by Marie McAuliffe, Head, Migration Research and Publications Division and Editor of the World Migration Report, International Organization for Migration, Switzerland; Sir Roland Wilson Fellow, School of Demography, The Australian National University, Australia; and Senior Fellow, Global Migration Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland and Céline Bauloz, Senior Research Officer and Head, Research Unit, International Organization for Migration and Senior Fellow, Global Migration Centre, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland

Contents:

1 Migration, gender and COVID-19: an overview 1
Marie McAuliffe and Céline Bauloz,

PART I (MIS)UNDERSTANDING THE IMPACTS: MIGRATION
AND GENDER RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
2 Researching Afghan women’s mobility decisions during COVID-19
and multiple crises – stayers or left behind? 17
Nassim Majidi and Katherine James
3 The ‘covidisation’ of migration and health research: understanding the
implications of the pandemic for the field 34
Thea de Gruchy, Jo Vearey, Kavita Datta, Elaine Chase and Linda Musariri,,
4 COVID-19 and the intersections of gender, migration status, work and place 48
Denise Spitzer

PART II GENDER IMPLICATIONS OF MOVING DURING COVID-19
5 Internal migration, informal work, and the COVID-19 pandemic:
city-level insights on intersecting vulnerabilities 64
Marcela Valdivia and Ghida Ismail
6 Gendered impacts on internal migrant workers in the informal economy
in India 83
Megan Schmidt-Sane, Mihir Bhatt, Mehul Pandya and Lyla Mehta
7 Migration of Venezuelan and Haitian women in Brazil during the
COVID-19 pandemic: outlooks, gender, and governance 95
Roberto Rodolfo Georg Uebel
8 Intersectionality, violence, and migration during COVID-19: women on
the move in Central America 109
Adriana Salcedo
9 Gendered impacts of COVID-19 on international students in Korea 123
Taehoon Lee and Sang Hyun Park

PART III DESTINATION COMPLEXITIES OF MOBILITY AND IMMOBILITY
10 Care as relational practice: Filipino migrant workers creating
communities of care under COVID-19 141
Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, Tanya Yared, Edwin Carlos and Maria Renee
Zapata
11 Syrian refugees in Lebanon: gendered impacts of a multi-layered crisis 154
Irene Tuzi and Weam Ghabash
12 Gendered control over space in migrant housing 168
Mastoureh Fathi
13 Pandemic precarity, crisis-living, and food insecurity: female
Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa 180
Sujata Ramachandran, Jonathan Crush, Godfrey Tawodzera and Elizabeth
Opiyo Onyango
14 By the wayside: gender dimensions of stranded migrants during the
COVID-19 crisis 196
Marie McAuliffe

PART IV RETURN MIGRATION AND REINTEGRATION IMPACTS
15 Pre-pandemic mobility: uncoupling gendered return migration and
COVID-19 in Zimbabwe 213
Rose Jaji
16 Impact of COVID-19 on women migrant workers: case of domestic
workers in the South Asia–Gulf corridor 225
S. Irudaya Rajan and Rakkee Thimothy
17 Return migration and women’s empowerment: the implications of the
COVID-19 pandemic in return migrant households 239
Céline Bauloz and Jenna Blower-Nassiri
18 Understanding return migration from the Gulf to East Africa during
crisis: youth and gender dimensions 259
Adrian Kitimbo

PART V MIGRATION AND GENDER IN A POST COVID-19 WORLD
19 COVID-19 vaccine access and the intersection of gender and displacement 278
Katharine M. Donato, Elizabeth Ferris, Shuait Nair, Erin M. Sorrell and
Claire J. Standley
20 Changing practices of providing (financial) care: gender, digital access
and remittances during COVID-19 291
Iris Lim and Kavita Datta
21 One step forward, two steps back: pandemic policy responses and the
gendered implications for women and LGBTQI+ migrants 309
Jenna Hennebry and Hari KC
22 The impacts of COVID-19 and coup on Myanmar migrant children’s
education in Thailand 325
Pyone Myat Thu and Premjai Vungsiriphisal
23 Addressing irregularity and combating vulnerabilities: regularisation
programmes implemented during and as a result of COVID-19 344
Pablo Rojas Coppari and Samuel Poirier

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