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Open your eyes to the World’s Forcibly Displaced People
A brief literature survey to get insights on the catastrophic impact of COVID-19 on the health of asylum-seekers.
Recent studies show that displaced communities are very much vulnerable to the risk factors of SARS-CoV-2 infection when compared to native born[1]. According to the UN Refugee Agency’s recent global trends Forced Displacement report, 79.5 million migrants are forcibly displaced, where 4.2 million people are asylum-seekers [2].
Asylum seekers and refugees
An asylum seeker meets the criteria of a refugee and he/she is an individual who has fed their home country to find protection from war, violence, or persecution but is requesting for protection within an entry point [3].
There is a recent study of Capital District Asylum Collaborative (CDAC) [3], researchers analyzed the different forms of trauma experienced by Asylum seekers (between the years 2016 and 2020). They found that asylum seekers encounter beating to the body, rape, molesting or humiliation, forced separation from their family, ailment, and poor access to medical care.
