The head of the Red Cross has warned in an interview with the AFP news agency that the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic could prompt massive new migration.
Jagan Chapagain, head of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), said many people in poverty faced the desperate choice of risking exposure to the virus or going hungry.
Chapagain, from Nepal, told AFP that more migration driven by desperation could result in more tragedies, such as deaths at sea. He said there was an economic as well as moral imperative to help those most in need.
“The cost of supporting the migrants, during the transit and of course when they reach the country of destination, is much more than supporting people in their livelihoods, education, health needs in their own country,” he said.
He also warned that inequalities in access to healthcare could prompt further migration. He condemned efforts by some countries to secure vaccine supplies for their own people first.
24 July, CNN
We have already seen the huge internal migration at the beginning of lockdown specially in South Asian countries. And, the wave of internal as well as external migration will be larger after the economic crisis due to Corona pandemic.
Such situations, both disasters and health access, have long influenced migration. We review one aspect of islander migration in a just-published paper https://doi.org/10.24043/isj.120 including some such contexts.
Corona will be the major push factor of migration for the people of low and middle income countries to look for the new opportunity after the pandemic crisis. it's now mostly causing internal migration when the international border have been closed.
It might increase migration as suggested by the head of the red cross, but given the fact that most developed countries have been affected by COVID - 19 both socially and economically will resist receiving migrants, therefore, we could see more deaths of migrants at sea and elsewhere
Thanks for your opinion dear Dr Ijaz Durrani
and both internal and external migrations will be major problems after the crisis.- Badges
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