COVID-19 Impacts on the Labour Migration and Mobility of Young Women and Girls in South-East Asia and the Pacific

Author(s)
McAdam, M.
Publication language
English
Pages
26pp
Date published
18 Sep 2020
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Children & youth, COVID-19, Epidemics & pandemics, Forced displacement and migration, Internal Displacement, Gender, Livelihoods, Research, policy and analysis

This paper explores the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on labour migration and mobility of young women and girls in South-East Asia and the Pacific. Building on the research report “Supporting Brighter Futures: Young Women and Girls and Labour Migration in South-East Asia and the Pacific” published by IOM in 2019, the paper offers speculative reflections on some policy implications that the shifts induced by the COVID-19 pandemic may have had on the overarching and interrelated economic, social, cultural and structural findings of the report, as well as the gender dimensions at play in South-East Asia and the Pacific.

Authors: 
McAdam, M.