COVID-19 related articles

The following articles and papers by RSC researchers and others may prove helpful in understanding the impact of COVID-19 on forced migrants.

Providing supplies at Hope of Children and Women Victims of Violence (HOCW) in Uganda, with social distancing — Social distancing at Hope of Children and Women Victims of Violence (HOCW), a refugee-led, grassroots initiative near Kampala, Uganda

	The coming refugee crisis: how COVID-19 exacerbates forced displacement Alexander Betts (RSC), OUPblog, 22 April 2021
	How COVID-19 became a cover to reduce refugee rights Heaven Crawley (Coventry University), The Conversation, 10 March 2021
	Is COVID-19 an opportunity to achieve the rights of refugees? James Milner (Carleton University), OpenDemocracy, 9 February 2021
	Another set of heroes: refugee women making the Global Compact on Refugees real amid COVID-19 Eileen Pittaway and Linda Bartolomei (Kaldor Centre, UNSW), Kaldor Centre COVID-19 Watch, July 2020
	Covid-19 and refugees in India: A tale of exclusion and counter-exclusion Vatsal Raj (National Law University, Lucknow) Border Criminologies Blog, July 2020
	COVID-19 in the Americas: Who’s looking after refugees and migrants? Maximo O Brito, Annals of Global Health, 86(1) (2020)
	Forced Migration Review 64, COVID-19 – early reflections A 12-page mini-feature including 4 articles. June 2020
	The socio-economic and psychosocial impact of Covid-19 pandemic on urban refugees in Uganda Paul Bukuluki et al, Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2(1) (2020)
	The Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Forcibly Displaced Persons in Developing Countries OECD, June 2020
	Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees and Migrants, COVID-19 Global Update, no. 5 Mixed Migration Centre, June 2020
	Refugee-led responses to COVID-19: a case study from Uganda Patrick Chandiga Justine (Community Empowerment for Creative Innovation), Rethinking Refuge, June 2020
	The Question of Palestine in the times of COVID-19: Position paper on the situation for Palestinian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, occupied Palestine and Syria [pdf 5.7MB] ARDD, June 2020
	Child repatriation in the time of COVID-19 Jacqueline Bhabha and Vasileia Digidiki (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), Rethinking Refuge, June 2020
	“Hard and unbearable”: COVID-19 induced challenges as told by refugee and host support group leaders Refugee Law Project, May 2020 (via ReliefWeb)
	Gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for policies and programmes in humanitarian settings S. Fuhrman, A. Kalyanpur, S. Friedman et al. BMJ Global Health 2020; 5(5): e002624.
	Refugee groups fill gaps in COVID-19 response, and they need support Robert Hakiza (YARID), Alexander Betts (RSC), Evan Easton-Calabria (RSC) and Kate Pincock (ODI), The New Humanitarian, 29 April 2020
	As COVID-19 slows human mobility, can the Global Compact for Migration meet the test for a changed era? Lena Kainz (Migration Policy Institute), MPI Commentary, 28 April 2020
	The COVID-19 pandemic suggests the lessons learned by European asylum policymakers after the 2015 migration crisis are fading Hanne Beirens (Migration Policy Institute), MPI Commentary, April 2020
	COVID-19 prisoner releases are not a matter of mercy, but of justice Kieran Oberman (Edinburgh University), World Economic Forum, 27 April 2020
	Australia's coronavirus relief exclusions prove we are not all in this together Ben Doherty (MSc 2018-2019), The Guardian, 23 April 2020
	Will COVID-19 finally force us to reconsider the global (im)mobility regime? Emilie McDonnell (DPhil student, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford), Refugee Law Initiative Blog, 16 April 2020
	COVID-19 has Kenyan refugee camp on edge Cory Rodgers (RSC), The New Humanitarian, 14 April 2020
	Covid-19 Coverage by the Kakuma News Reflector (KANERE)
	The Gaza Strip has been under siege for years. Covid-19 could be catastrophic Neve Gordon, The Nation, 25 March 2020

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