Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication, Inequality, and Transformation

The book explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants globally, highlighting the disproportionate burdens of health disparities they face. It adopts decolonizing and interventionist methodologies to re-organize economics, politics, culture, and society in logics of care. Each chapter focuses on the health of migrants during the pandemic, emphasizing the role of communication in amplifying and solving the health crisis. The book builds a narrative archive witnessing the fundamental geopolitical rupture in the 21st century, documenting the violence built into the zeitgeist of labor exploitation amidst neoliberal transformations. It is essential reading for scholars studying critical and global health, development, participatory communication, migration, globalization, international and intercultural communication, and the precarity and marginality of health during pandemics.

Format: Hardback
Length: 235 pages
Publication date: 07 February 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This comprehensive book delves into the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants worldwide, who bear an unfair burden of health disparities. By centering the voices of migrants as the focal point for theorizing health, the chapters adopt a diverse range of decolonizing and interventionist methodologies that provide conceptual tools for re-organizing economics, politics, culture, and society in logics of care.

Each chapter focuses on the health of migrants during the pandemic, emphasizing the crucial role of communication in amplifying and resolving the health crisis experienced by these individuals. The chapters bring together a diverse array of communicative resources and practices associated with migrant negotiations of precarity and exclusion. Health is situated within the complex interplay of authoritarianism, misinformation, hate, and exploitation targeting migrant bodies.

The book constructs a narrative archive that witnesses this fundamental geopolitical rupture in the 21st century, documenting the violence inherent in the zeitgeist of labor exploitation amidst neoliberal transformations. It situates health within the extractive and exploitative forms of organizing migrant labor.

This book is an indispensable resource for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in critical and global health, development, participatory communication, migration, globalization, international and intercultural communication. It addresses the pressing questions of precarity and marginality of health during pandemics, offering valuable insights and perspectives to scholars and researchers in these fields.

Weight: 462g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811973833
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023