Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic

This book looks at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on migrants globally whobear disproportionate burdens ofhealth disparities. Centering the voices of migrants asanchors fortheorizing health,thechapters adopt an array of decolonizing and interventionist methodologies that offer conceptual communicative resources for re-organizing economics, politics, culture, and society in logics of care. Each chapter focuses on the health of migrants during the pandemic, highlighting the role of communication in amplifying and solving the health crisisexperienced bymigrants.The chaptersdraw togethervarious communicative resources and practices tied to migrantnegotiations ofprecarity and exclusion. Health is situated amidst the forces of authoritarianism, disinformation, hate, and exploitation targeting migrant bodies. The book builds a narrativearchivewitnessingthis fundamental geopoliticalrupture in the 21st century,documenting the violence built into the zeitgeist oflaborexploitation amidst neoliberal transformations, situating health with the extractive and exploitative forms of organizing migrant labor. The book is essential reading for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses for scholars studying critical and global health, development, and participatory communication, migration, globalization, international and intercultural communication interested in the questions of precarity and marginality of health during pandemics.