Health and Migration: Health Securitization and Policy-Making Perspectives in the Post-Pandemic Era

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Published: Jun 30, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/hapscpbs.27667
Keywords:
health crisis diseases migration health securitization future policy-making post COVID-19 era
Zisis S. Kyrgos
Hellenic Institute for Strategic Studies; Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Dimitrios G. Pantazis
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Abstract

It is not to deny that the up-to-date literature has already discussed the emergence of forced human mobility due to the outbreak of health crises, owing to the latter’s adverse socio-political effects on the intrastate or regional systems. However, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been playing a crucial role in enhancing the research upon health crises and health securitization, hence, further recognizing their multidimensional character. Under these circumstances, this text attempts to estimate whether and to what extent the states will reconsider their agendas –in the post-pandemic era– in terms of more successfully managing health crises and associated migration, so as to respectively reduce the potential negative consequences in their internal systems.

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Author Biographies
Zisis S. Kyrgos, Hellenic Institute for Strategic Studies; Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Zisis S. Kyrgos is Researcher at Hellenic Institute for Strategic Studies (HELISS) and Institute for International Relations (IIR), Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens
Dimitrios G. Pantazis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dimitrios G. Pantazis is a Political Scientist, BA (Dept. Political Science and Public Administration, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens).
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