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CW Week 17

The document discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed global migration in five key ways and is likely to have lasting effects on migration long after the pandemic ends. It outlines how human mobility has increased over the past century but COVID-19 has fundamentally altered global human mobility and brought most movement to a halt.

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CW Week 17

The document discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed global migration in five key ways and is likely to have lasting effects on migration long after the pandemic ends. It outlines how human mobility has increased over the past century but COVID-19 has fundamentally altered global human mobility and brought most movement to a halt.

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The particular lesson that I like the most and that I can relate it to my personal experience in
our present world of today was the Ways COVID-19 Is Changing Global Migration. The COVID-19
pandemic has changed human mobility for those of us washing our hands vigorously and
avoiding social contact. But in addition to these disruptions to daily life, the pandemic could be
fundamentally changing the face of global migration in at least five key ways. COVID-19 has
brought most of the world to a halt. It has ushered in an entirely new human experience full of
hand soap and Zoom. But it has also fundamentally altered global human mobility. Much has
been made of the important health and economic implications of COVID-19 that could linger
well after workers return to work and travelers start traveling again. But the current global
cessation of movement is unprecedented in modern times. Some are comparing the current
pandemic to the so-called “Spanish Flu” of 1918, but from one important perspective the two
pandemics differ greatly: the face of global migration was much different in the wake of WWI
than in 2020. Thus, COVID-19 is likely to have lasting migration implications long after people,
health systems, and the economy bounce back. Human mobility has historically come in many
forms. As planes, trains, and automobiles became safer, more efficient, and more accessible
over the past century, short-term movements to and from places of work and schooling,
between towns and cities, and even across the globe have become commonplace. Accelerated
by the advent of the internet and the subsequent social media revolution, the desire and ability
to move accelerated to the point that it has permeated even the furthest reaches of the planet.
Not everyone wants to leave home, of course, but many (and many more than in 1918) see
migration as at least one future pathway, whether it be permanently or temporarily with the
hopes to one day return home. In many ways, the global economy relies on people making
decisions to migrate. Global migration has proven to be an integral and necessary part of our
globalized economy, though its face has looked different in every region, country, and city, as
well as to each family.

Until COVID-19 brought it all to a screeching halt.

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