Poverty, insecurity and migration: reducing COVID-19 risks and vulnerabilities

Panel discussion as part of the SOAS University of London Festival of Ideas 2020

SOAS has an international reputation for conducting ethical, long-term social science field work and this is of vital importance in the COVID-19 crisis. In the global south many are not able to settle and millions move in search of diversified livelihoods in order to survive. With COVID-19 these mobile populations are viewed with fear and suspicion and the long-term research findings from SOAS are necessary to demonstrate how such groups are exploited and to propose solutions to their dilemmas and to the COVID-19 challenges. Drugs & (dis)order Principal Investigator Jonathan Goodhand, joins SOAS colleagues on a panel to discuss.

Panellists:

• Professor Laura Hammond
• Dr Aicha Belkadi
• Dr Sreya Banerjea
• Professor Jonathan Goodhand
• Professor Alison Scott-Baumann

These panellists will discuss their research and its added significance in times of pandemic.

This event is part of the Virtual SOAS Festival of Ideas which will kick off a week-long series of virtual events. The festival includes: panel discussions, student led installations, masterclasses, keynote lectures, a public debate for/against on Decolonising Knowledge and a Verbatim performance by Bhuchar Boulevard on ‘Decolonising Not Just a Buzzword’ capturing SOAS conversations about the need to decolonise its imperial mission.

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