COVID-19 responses restricted abilities and aspirations for mobility and migration: insights from diverse cities in four continents
dc.contributor.author | Jolivet, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Fransen, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Adger, WN | |
dc.contributor.author | Fábos, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Abu, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Allen, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Boyd, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Carr, ER | |
dc.contributor.author | Codjoe, SNA | |
dc.contributor.author | Gavonel, MF | |
dc.contributor.author | Gemenne, F | |
dc.contributor.author | Rocky, MH | |
dc.contributor.author | Lantz, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Maculule, D | |
dc.contributor.author | de Campos, RS | |
dc.contributor.author | Siddiqui, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Zickgraf, C | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-19T12:11:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-05-18 | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-12-19T11:14:15Z | |
dc.description.abstract | Research on the impacts of COVID-19 on mobility has focused primarily on the increased health vulnerabilities of involuntary migrant and displaced populations. But virtually all migration flows have been truncated and altered because of reduced economic and mobility opportunities of migrants. Here we use a well-established framework of migration decision-making, whereby individual decisions combine the aspiration and ability to migrate, to explain how public responses to the COVID-19 pandemic alter migration patterns among urban populations across the world. The principal responses to COVID-19 pandemic that affected migration are: 1) through travel restrictions and border closures, 2) by affecting abilities to move through economic and other means, and 3) by affecting aspirations to move. Using in-depth qualitative data collected in six cities in four continents (Accra, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dhaka, Maputo, and Worcester), we explore how populations with diverse levels of education and occupations were affected in their current and future mobility decisions. We use data from interviews with sample of internal and international migrants and non-migrants during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic outbreak to identify the mechanisms through which the pandemic affected their mobility decisions. The results show common processes across the different geographical contexts: individuals perceived increased risks associated with further migration, which affected their migration aspirations, and had reduced abilities to migrate, all of which affected their migration decision-making processes. The results also reveal stark differences in perceived and experienced migration decision-making across precarious migrant groups compared to high-skilled and formally employed international migrants in all settings. This precarity of place is particularly evident in low-income marginalised populations. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | ISSC | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (NSF) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | NWO | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | VR | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Union Horizon 2020 | en_GB |
dc.format.extent | 250- | |
dc.format.medium | Print-Electronic | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 10, article 250 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01721-y | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | ES/S007687/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/134827 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0003-4244-2854 (Adger, William Neil) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Springer Nature | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2023. Open access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dc.title | COVID-19 responses restricted abilities and aspirations for mobility and migration: insights from diverse cities in four continents | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2023-12-19T12:11:20Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2662-9992 | |
exeter.article-number | 250 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer Nature via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: The datasets of interview transcripts generated and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2662-9992 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartof | Humanit Soc Sci Commun, 10(1) | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-04-25 | |
dc.rights.license | CC BY | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-05-18 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2023-12-19T12:08:03Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-12-19T12:11:28Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-05-18 |
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