Migration reform amid COVID-19, risks associated with prisons in the pandemic, and uneven growth in American cities over the last decade.
| Mexico’s prisons, COVID-19, and the amnesty law The prevalence of COVID-19 in prisons poses grave risks not only to prisoners but also to larger communities, especially for corrections officers and relatives that interact with prisoners. Vanda Felbab-Brown argues that the pandemic highlights the urgent and continuing need for improving conditions in overcrowded and badly managed Mexican prisons. Read more |
| Less gratitude, please. How COVID-19 reveals the need for migration reform “Migrant essential workers were key to our economies and societies before the pandemic and are likely to become even more essential in the recovery to sustain our weakened economies and exhausted societies.” Though immigrants are on the frontlines fighting against COVID-19, Marta Foresti writes that the pandemic will likely make it harder to advocate for global migration reform. Read more |
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