Migração na crise humanitária e sanitária da pandemia

Abstract

Authorities from different countries, as well as international bodies, usually call migration a “humanitarian crisis”. It is not uncommon for movements of this kind to coincide with other types of crisis, such as tensions and conflicts at geographical borders, proliferation of refugee and refugee camps, in subhuman conditions; gaps and precariousness in the infrastructure of urban public policies to welcome newcomers; brutal and silent dispute for the rare, meager, dirty and heavy services in the field of informal work; opening of loopholes for both organized trafficking in human beings and situations analogous to slave labor; sexual and labor exploitation of minors; deterioration of the organisation, rights and dignity of workers. Although with its own specificities, things are repeated, with the health crisis installed across the planet by the Covid-19 pandemic. Migrations, in fact, on certain occasions can occur, at the same time, as a cause and effect of health-related problems. If, on the one hand, certain historical epidemics or human catastrophes tend to trigger the massive flight of people, on the other hand, the same movement also tends to unmask, open up and increase health needs in the places of destination. It should be remembered, however, that the link between migration and the health crisis is not mechanical. Factors such as unemployment or underemployment, agrarian structure and income level, among others, come into play.