A dissection of the dislocation of refugee communities amidst the COVID crisis

Abstract

One must not shut eyes to heartbreaking episodes of refugees and asylum seekers travelling on a twine of last-chance journeys. For one, ‘being stranded’ renders a float or sink situation, if neither, the individual or community gets washed ashore to inaccessible borders or corridors. Their statelessness transforms them into alienated beings with fragments of hope. Enter COVID-19 pandemic and the noose tightens by presenting the ways in which the refugees are amongst the most disadvantaged by challenging areas of their human rights and security in addition to how they have virtually been forgotten with only a few countries providing it support in the international arena.