COVID-19 pandemic exposes gaps in European migrant health policies & accelerates need to build inclusive public-health and migrant integration systems pressreleasepoint.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressreleasepoint.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Solidarity in Isolation? Social cohesion at a time of physical distance
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As COVID-19 pandemic weakens bridges between diverse groups, swift government action is needed to strengthen social cohesion
BRUSSELS The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly altered the ways and places in which people interact. Early evidence suggests that bridges between groups are weakening, as the closure of key pillars of public life, including schools and libraries, reduced casual encounters that once fostered connection between disparate groups. Instead, interactions have been concentrated within existing networks.
While new, creative forms of virtual socialisation emerged, virus mitigation efforts may have intensified longstanding challenges in building social cohesion and bridging divisions in migrant-receiving societies, a new Migration Policy Institute Europe report finds.
Europe Heads for Jobs Crunch That May Be Deeper Than the U.S.’s
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The labor shortage that is hitting the U.S. as the nation rebounds from the pandemic is also coming to Europe, where it could prove even more difficult to fix.
Like the U.S., where April’s payroll growth fell far short of expectations, Europe will struggle to match workers with jobs. That’s despite unemployment at more than 7% in the European Union and more than twice as high in Greece and Spain which isn’t predicted to return to pre-crisis levels before 2023.
WASHINGTON and STUTTGART Seeking to redesign the global humanitarian protection and refugee resettlement infrastructure in ways that advance equity, flexibility and sustainability, the Migration Policy Institute and Robert Bosch Stiftung today launched a new initiative, “ Beyond Territorial Asylum: Making Protection Work in a Bordered World .” With asylum systems under immense pressure and public trust eroded by the increasing numbers of spontaneous arrivals in Europe, North America and beyond, territorial asylum is under threat. And on the refugee front, many of the neediest refugees remain in extremely vulnerable situations worldwide, facing scant prospects for resettlement or other durable solutions. These realities have only been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which brought humanitarian operations to a standstill, limited already strained asylum and resettlement infrastructure and further eroded the decades-old norms underpinning a protection system forged in
MPI, Robert Bosch Foundation Launch Ambitious Initiative Aimed at Redesigning the Humanitarian Protection & Resettlement Infrastructure - World reliefweb.int - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from reliefweb.int Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.