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Migrants on the front lines. The effects of COVID-19 measures on migrant workers working in crucial sectors

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    2020
    2022

  • Funder

    NWO Netherlands

  • Principal Investigator

    Dr. PJ Beckers

  • Research Location

    Netherlands

  • Lead Research Institution

    Radboud University Nijmegen

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Secondary impacts of disease, response & control measures

  • Research Subcategory

    Social impacts

  • Special Interest Tags

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Unspecified

  • Vulnerable Population

    Internally Displaced and Migrants

  • Occupations of Interest

    Unspecified

Abstract

European and 'undocumented' labor migrants perform essential work in crucial sectors, but run major health risks due to their working and housing conditions, the (increasingly cross-border) way in which production chains and the labor market are organized and the lack of a social safety net. This research also focuses on the question of which structural problems have been exposed by the corona crisis surrounding labor migration. And what opportunities does this system change crisis offer to promote the protection of migrant workers working on the front line?