As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic this book explores current migration and
integration challenges. Against the background of long-term migration trends it asks whether
the pandemic has changed the patterns observed transformed the circumstances international
migrants face at destination or whether the opportunities and challenges for integration have
been altered. Twenty-four researchers have contributed to this volume with research attention
on how COVID-19 has affected transnationalism and identity labour market employment and
impacted the discrimination of migrants in a variety of ways. Loyalties and tensions created by
the need to include also hesitant migrant groups in vaccination programmes are explored. The
role of cosmopolitanism and welfare chauvinism in narratives on inward migrations flows the
stance of trade unions on migration the complexities of implementing return policies and the
challenges faced by unaccompanied refugee youth from Afghanistan are also discussed.
