Open AccessImmigrant Integration and COVID-19
Author(s) -
Uzi Rebhun
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
border crossing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2046-4444
pISSN - 2046-4436
DOI - 10.33182/bc.v11i1.1291
Subject(s) - immigration , settlement (finance) , religiosity , nexus (standard) , pandemic , political science , covid-19 , population , development economics , ethnic group , political economy , sociology , demographic economics , economic growth , economics , law , demography , medicine , disease , finance , pathology , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , payment , embedded system
Covid-19 has thrust millions of people who have recently crossed international borders into unprecedented social and economic havoc. The patterns of immigration and settlement in a new country, on the one hand, and the nature of the virus, on the other hand, have placed immigrants at high risk of infection, possibly generating or accelerating anti-immigration sentiments among the local population. In this viewpoint, I discuss five complementary aspects of the migration-pandemic nexus: immigrants’ legal status, language proficiency, ethnic segregation, religiosity, and economic wellbeing. My concluding remarks carry several implications for policy.