Seeking Protection in a Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on Asylum Border restrictions put into place during the pandemic have severely limited the ability of people fleeing violence and persecution to ask for protection. A recently-released study by the Jesuit Refugee Service and Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration, Seeking Protection in a Pandemic: COVID-19 and the Future of Asylum, analyzed the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on asylum processes in the US and other countries. Drawing on the experiences of JRS field staff, the study looks particularly at restrictions on asylum in the US, Mexico, Colombia, Australia, the European Union and South Africa. The study finds that border restrictions implemented to protect the public against COVID-19 will have long-lasting impacts on US and global asylum policies and that these restrictions amplified existing inequalities between displaced and host populations. Join us for a presentation of this report and its implications for asylum in the US and elsewhere. Please