The Impact of Covid-19 on Asylum Seekers and Migrants in Belgium
The Impact of Covid-19 on Asylum Seekers and Migrants in Belgium

Author(s): Júlia Zomignani Barboza
Subject(s): Health and medicine and law, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: COVID-19; pandemic; migrants; Belgian society;
Summary/Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all sectors of the Belgian society, including its most vulnerable. In this contribution, we focus on the pandemic’s effects on asylum seekers and migrants, who had their rights severely restricted by the sanitary measures enacted to contain the spread of the virus. More specifically, we will look into the limitations that were put in place to submit applications for international protection and the restrictions that apply to visits in detention centres, limiting independent oversight of such facilities. With the benefit of hindsight, we identify best practices and recommendations for the future.

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