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Migrants Play a Critical Role in the Health Care Sector

São Paulo, April 22, 2020 – Globally, migrants play an increasingly important role in the field of healthcare. As the global population of older people and children continues to grow, the number of health professionals will grow. From the Philippines to the United States, she remembers her growth in the Philippines as “an arduous journey” and that she was “lucky” to come to the United States to live and work with her husband, who had

Closed Borders, Essential Crossings, Deportations, Pandemic Spread, and Stigmatization

Guadalajara, April 21, 2020 – just over a month ago, on March 18, 2020, the United States government decided to close its borders with Canada and Mexico to “non-essential crossings,” in order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. The Guatemalan government, on the same date, declared the “state of public calamity”: it decreed the closure of borders and restricted the mobility of people as a measure to prevent the spread of the pandemic. One