Opportunistic oppression: U.S. migration restrictions and public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic
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چکیده
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept world in Spring 2020, Trump administration invoked war against coronavirus to severely restrict admission of migrants and asylum seekers into United States. At same time, it declined enact national measures control viral community spread sharply criticised public health policies. We analyse this notable inconsistency as a case opportunistic oppression whereby policymakers take advantage crisis pursue pre-existing, often unrelated, policy preferences. identify how securitisation crisis-enabled politics enmity allowed cynically erode migrant human rights protections while simultaneously failing contain pandemic. Opportunistic represents an attractive strategy for states facing real imagined emergencies political agendas that are not necessarily part coherent effective response at hand.
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عنوان ژورنال: The International Journal of Human Rights
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1364-2987', '1744-053X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2022.2044314