Tell us how COVID-19 had lingering effects on your life - Jamestown Press

Tell us how COVID-19 had lingering effects on your life - Jamestown Press

Next month will be the five-year anniversary of the COVID 19 pandemic, a catastrophic worldwide health event that killed more than 7 million people among about 777 million cases globally. It also drastically changed the way we all lived for almost a year, modifying our behavior in regard to the way we treated basic hygiene to how we interacted with others to how we shopped, dined, attended entertainment venues and traveled. Five years on, remnan…

Militarised immigration control in Mexico: The lingering effect of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Luisa Gabriela Morales-Vega | Issue 26 Four years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, its impact on Mexican immigration policy remains significant. The implementation of migration containment measures by the Mexican government has intensified detention and imprisonment of migrants seeking international protection. The number of detainees increased from 182,940 people in 2020 to 828,505 in 2024, while the number of people deported, howev…