Abstract
It is crucial to understand how the most vulnerable populations have been impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This paper intends to contextualize the experience of resettled refugees in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic, framing the issue for further study as the situation evolves. Based on the experience drawn from the first wave of the pandemic, the findings of this paper suggest that refugees in Canada encounter barriers to healthcare, economic support, education, social support, and border crossing impediments, all of which can have a compounding effect. These findings provide needed information to inform the development of effective policies and strategies to support refugees during health security emergencies in Canada.
Highlights
In December 2019, a new coronavirus emerged in China
Both approaches are pertinent to the fight against COVID-19 as countries scramble to both contain the spread of the communicable disease and work to strengthen their health systems to manage the influx of patients
As COVID-19 is an evolving situation, this paper aims to outline the importance of considering the experience of the refugee in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic
Summary
In December 2019, a new coronavirus emerged in China. COVID-19, the novel infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has proceeded to threaten and overwhelm public health systems around the globe. Declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a pandemic, at which point Canada had publicly reported 103 cases [2]. As countries develop policies and programs to manage COVID-19, health security has been brought to the forefront of national and international governance. Collective health security is defined as “reducing the vulnerabilities of societies to infectious disease threats that spread across national borders” [3] Both approaches are pertinent to the fight against COVID-19 as countries scramble to both contain the spread of the communicable disease and work to strengthen their health systems to manage the influx of patients
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