Scientific article

English

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown on the health and living conditions of undocumented migrants and migrants undergoing legal status regularization

ContributorsBurton-Jeangros, Claudine

; Duvoisin, Aline; Lachat, Sarah; Consoli, Liala

; Fakhoury, Julien; Jackson, Yves-Laurent Julien

Published inFrontiers in Public Health, vol. 8, 596887

Publication date2020

Abstract

Undocumented migrants are at high risk of adverse consequences duringcrises because of a lack of access to essential securities and sources of support. This study aims to describe the impact of the COVID-19 crisison the health andliving circumstances of precarious migrants in Switzerland and to assess whether thoseundergoing legal status regularization fared better than undocumented migrants.

Keywords

COVID-19
Migrant
Impact
Lockdown
Undocumented
Health
Living conditions

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Funding

Swiss National Science Foundation - Parchemins: Etude prospective de l'impact du programme de régularisation Papyrus sur la santé et les conditions de vie des migrants sans-papiers à Genève [100017_182208]

Citation (ISO format)

BURTON-JEANGROS, Claudine et al. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown on the health and living conditions of undocumented migrants and migrants undergoing legal status regularization. In: Frontiers in Public Health, 2020, vol. 8, p. 596887. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.596887

Article (Published version)

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PID : unige:147845
DOI : 10.3389/fpubh.2020.596887
PMID : 33392134

Commercial URLhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.596887/full

Journal ISSN2296-2565

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