It highlights the relevant findings and policy The COVID-19 pandemic radically restructured implications emerging from the UNODC research the nature of social interactions and economic published in mid-2020 on the impact of COVID-19 activities in all regions of the world. [...] Indeed, the COVID-19 crisis may itself encourage people to leave their country of origin or to move on Effects of the COVID-19 crisis on the smuggling from a transit country, and in the absence of regular of migrants in North Africa opportunities to do so, the demand for migrant smuggling increases. [...] refugees and migrants stranded en route have been However, in the medium term, also for people widely documented in many parts of the world in travelling in search of better economic prospects, in recent years and may increase as a result of the the context of unequal economic recovery from the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] in the use of riskier routes and conditions, along (d) Regular monitoring of the effects of public with higher prices for smuggling services, exposing measures to mitigate the negative effects of migrants and refugees to increased abuse, exploitation the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable people, and trafficking. [...] In the medium term (three to five years), and as there The medium- to long-term economic consequences is a better understanding of the health and economic resulting from the lockdown measures introduced to consequences of the pandemic, migrant communities reduce the spread of COVID-19 may have an impact need to be included in the considerations of a national on smuggling flows.
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