the growing externalisation of the European Union’s migration policy in recent years (an attitude most Even in the first months of the pandemic, when recently evident in the wake of the fall of Afghanistan to migration in many parts of the world almost came to a the Taliban in August 2021 and the reluctance of many halt, the need and desire to migrate did not go away. [...] A similar pattern The discussions reaffirmed the value of the GCM, emerges when looking at the geography of the various particularly in the wake of the pandemic, and networks and funded projects that have emerged from the need to view migration as a positive force for the GCM: though often funded primarily by northern democracy and sustainable development. [...] IOM’s submission to the HLPF, “Leveraging migration to better recover from Covid-19 and achieve the 2030 Agenda”, emphasised the continued challenges facing migrants in the wake of the pandemic and the knock-on effects this had on social and economic development worldwide.12 Besides highlighting the challenges migrants faced, from lack of access to health care to xenophobia, the submission present. [...] total of 23,175 people were expelled across the border in 2020,89 with around almost 18,000 reportedly deported In the midst of this crisis, more than 213,000 people in the first nine months of 2021.90 The expulsions typically were internally displaced by the violence, bringing the involve refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers being total number of IDPs in the country to 690,705 by the taken to a. [...] In Bahrain, for example, the Flexi-Permit repatriation to their home countries.130 scheme introduced in 2017 was regarded as one of the most progressive developments in the region, yet the In the wake of the pandemic, human rights groups have high user fees and absence of broader measures such as criticised governments in the Gulf for prioritising the a minimum wage have meant that in practice mig.
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