MiFOOD partner and IIMAD Director Prof. S. Irudaya Rajan edits the newly released Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities (Edward Elgar, 2024). This Handbook which includes 37 chapters explores the multifaceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrant populations such as international students, refugees, undocumented migrants and informal urban workers. It examines how migration and urbanization have been reshaped by the pandemic and emphasizes the pivotal role of governments and cities in crisis management.
MiFOOD partners contributed several chapters that provide critical, place-based analyses of how migrant communities experienced the pandemic:
- Chapter 1: Migration and cities amidst COVID-19 crisis by S. Irudaya Rajan
- Chapter 7: ‘A particularly urban disease’: The impact of COVID-19 on internal migrants in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa by Jonathan Crush, Godfrey Tawodzera, Maria Salamone, and Zack Ahmed
- Chapter 15: Migrant livelihoods and strategies in urban South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Congolese and Zimbabwean migrants in two Cape Town neighbourhoods by Leah Koskimaki, Ngonidzashe Frackson Thom, and Mustapha Kazadi
- Chapter 17: COVID-19 containment measures and their impact on Venezuelan migrants in urban Ecuador by Cheryl Martens and Taymi Milan
- Chapter 23: Policing the pandemic: Migrants in South African cities during the COVID-19 lockdown by Jonathan Crush and Sean Sithole
- Chapter 27: Health crises, ‘undesirables’, and exclusionary border regimes in the Caribbean by Natalie Dietrich Jones
- Chapter 29: Coping with health crisis and multiple vulnerabilities: Migrant shelters in Mexico City and its metropolitan area during COVID-19 lockdown by Fernanda Vázquez-Vela and Guénola Capron
- Chapter 30: Migrants’ food security amidst the changing COVID-19 containment measures in urban China by Zhenzhong Si and Taiyang Zhong
- Chapter 31: The impact of COVID-19 containment measures on urban-rural linkages: A study on the flow of food and people in the urban-rural nexus in Kenya by Samuel Owuor
- Chapter 37: Reflections: Borders, cities and a decolonial future? by S Irudaya Rajan and Anand Sreekuma
Learn more about the volume here: Handbook of Research on Migration, COVID-19 and Cities