Open AccessAfghan Migrants in Iran
Author(s) -
Joanna Modrzejewska-Leśniewska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
studia z polityki publicznej
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2719-7131
pISSN - 2391-6389
DOI - 10.33119/kszpp/2020.4.1
Subject(s) - afghan , emigration , outbreak , pandemic , political science , work (physics) , intervention (counseling) , position (finance) , economic growth , development economics , covid-19 , medicine , law , nursing , business , virology , economics , mechanical engineering , disease , finance , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , engineering
For many decades Iran was a goal of economic emigration for Afghans. They could earn there a money to provide for their families at home. Since the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 Iran also became a place of refuge for some 3 million Afghans. Their situation was changing according to the changes in internal and international position of Iran. Sometimes the Iranian authorities were sympathetic, other time were fiercely unsympathetic and keen to remove the Afghan “guests”. So, the Afghans in Iran could not be sure how long they would be allowed to stay there if the Iranians would be willing to support them and if they would have a work to provide for their families. This state of uncertainty of the Afghan community there was worsened by an outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bothe the Iranian and Afghan health care are unable to effectively deal with the problem. And an economic collapse in Iran affected primarily the foreigners there of whatever stance, in this particular case the Afghans.