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… Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO classified the COVID-19 situation as a pandemic on the basis of alarming … 10,048. In addition to the tragic human consequences of COVID-19, the United Nation’s trade and development agency … that the slowdown in the global economy caused by COVID-19 is likely to cost at least US$1 trillion. Amid the …
… 2020 Abstract This policy analysis examines the impact of COVID-19 policy guidance on the role of workers who provide … USA ABSTRACT This policy analysis examines the impact of COVID-19 policy guidance on the role of workers who provide … street-level bureaucracy (SLB) theory in the context of COVID-19. SLB theory has previously been applied to child …
Beyond Family: Separation and reunification for young people negotiating transnational relationships
This paper explores perspectives on family reunification and emergent forms of separation among young migrants. These young people lived apart from and later reunited with their migrant parents who moved from the Philippines to Canada for work. The author draws from 15 months of ethnographic, arts-based, and participatory research with ten participants living in Greater Vancouver. While reunification literature and child rights discourse often focus on the process of a mother and child coming back together, this can obscure the relationships that young people form with others in the meantime…