Introduction: Immobile, stranded and excluded: the effects of COVID-19 on the international asylum system
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Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals n.º 129, p. 7-2
Quadrimestral (October-December 2021)
ISSN:1133-6595 | E-ISSN:2013-035X
DOI: doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2021.129.3.7
The disruptions to international mobility dynamics caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have affected refugees particularly severely. This article analyses the impact of the health crisis on international protection, particularly its effects on specific phases of the process: access to the territory, access to the procedure, and reception and its conditions. Using comparative analysis that incorporates the dynamics observed in several different places, the article takes an in-depth look at the pandemic’s effects on the consolidation of a new global asylum system whose roots lie in the transformations observed since the 1990s. It argues that the pandemic has accelerated certain trends that are symptomatic of an even more exclusionary and restrictive turn in the global system of so-called protection
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