Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of states' pandemic responses
to the conditions and vulnerabilities of undocumented Filipino migrants in Italy and the UK. It …

Residence of unauthorized immigrants is a stable feature of the Global North's liberal
democracies. This article asks how liberal-democratic policymakers should respond to this …

Scholarship has sought to develop theoretical frameworks to set order on the rather
muddled web of actors, interactions and tensions involved in asylum and immigration …

Much of the existing literature on social protection for immigrants focuses on what people do
as individuals and households or on national policy. However, there is a third set of actors …

The universality of the health system in Canada is often emphasised to contrast the
differences between the Canadian and American systems of access to care. However …

Social rights are the result of struggles fought at the margins, involving practices of solidarity
and care, and interpellations to the state and other actors in charge of the provision of such …

Although migration is a social protection strategy that allows actors to diversify risk and
escape hazards (Stark, 1991), migrants also have migration-related vulnerabilities that imply …

In March 2020, as the COVID-19 epidemic was spreading across the Western Hemisphere,
The Lancet warned of the heightened vulnerabilities of migrant and refugee populations …

This study identifies undocumented immigrants' obstacles to realizing their health care rights
in France. The ethnographic fieldwork informing this study was carried out in Paris from …

Migrants are often presented in simplified terms that focus on the threats they experience or
pose to the host society. This produces an image of migrants who have no agency and are …