COVID-19 - Immigration in a Time of Pandemic: - Confronting the Challenge

Some of these systemic challenges and the housing and support systems, have been particularly possible ways to tackle them are the focus of this special issue of vulnerable to the vagaries of the pandemic. [...] Kennedy also address the anti-Asian racism that has been fostered by the pandemic, considering in particular the heavy toll these attacks take on the mental health of the victims and the need to assist the targeted populations in coping with the additional distress they have been exposed to. [...] One of the real consequences of the loss of jobs and the bottom of the ladder (attendants in health centres for income caused, among other things, by the closure of businesses the elderly, home care, maintenance work). [...] The National wider range of federally-funded settlement partners, and the Settlement and Integration Council has met on a number of implementation of joint projects and collaborations where occasions to discuss how to respond to COVID-19 initially and possible in this eco-system of players that is integral to the how to adapt to the new normal. [...] Concretely, the the impact of COVID-19 on the resettlement assistance pro- membership of the National Settlement and Integration gram was implemented with co-chairs from the department Council began to expand to include provincial and territorial and the sector meeting from April to June.