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Publication Date: August 25, 2021
DOI:10.14738/assrj.88.10682. Adli, M., Saleem, A., Saleem, T., Adli, H., & Adli, M. (2021). The Impact of Covid-19 on the Global Economy and Migration. Advances
in Social Sciences Research Journal, 8(8). 251-260.
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The Impact of Covid-19 on the Global Economy and Migration
Maryam Adli (Ph.D. Scholar)
Department of Economics and Management
Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan
Amama Saleem (MBA Graduate)
Department of Economics and Management
Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan
Tamima Saleem (MBA Graduate)
Department of Economics and Management
Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan
Hawa Adli (Ph.D. Scholar)
Department of Life Sciences, Khazar University
Baku, Azerbaijan
Maria Adli (Ph.D. Student)
Department of International Relations, Western Caspian University
Baku, Azerbaijan
ABSTRACT
The World Health Organization stated COVID-19 a global pandemic, it has quickly
spread all over the world, posing immense health, environmental and social
challenges to the global population. The coronavirus outbreak is critically
interrupting the global trade and has shattered the core sustaining pillars of the
modern world economies. Concerns have been raised about policy changes,
enforcement actions, immigrant detention, and deportation practices during the
outbreak. The impact of COVID-19 on these trends implies new dimensions for
global governance and organizations. This article seeks to highlight Azerbaijan's
problems in the context of the battle against a pandemic. Because a country's
economy has been impacted, a comprehensive study may give a better
understanding of the results, illuminating the areas that require more assistance
and growth.
Key words: COVID-19, pandemic, Global Economy, migration, racial inequality,
Azerbaijan.
INTRODUCTION
COVID-19, aside from turning into a prominent risk to the worldwide public health of the
century, is being considered as a mark of disparity and lack of social progress. Initiating from
Wuhan, China, cases spread to Japan, South Korea, Europe, and the United States apace as it
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arrived at worldwide extents [1]. It has been classified as a pandemic by the World Health
Organization [2].
Specialists across proficient units had since anticipated an overall pandemic would stress the
worldwide trade, subsequently trigger an economic crisis over borders due to the profound
interdependence of the world we have been living [3].
By all accounts, pandemics obliterate the sustenance of the public and emerge global recession
[4]. Extreme populace mobility specifically for business and travel has been a vital cause of the
worldwide spread of the outbreak. COVID-19 has evinced that all people either rich or poor are
insecure against infection. Also, presently COVID19 has disrupted migration in many parts of
the world. Planes are grounded, borders sealed, and numerous nations are under lockdown.
This period of quietness is a chance to improve migration policies [5].
Immigrants are especially at high risk because they have language barriers and less exposure
to the local system thus, an outgrowth of the pandemic will be particularly high socially and
financially within immigrant communities. Recent immigration policies of the USA such as the
“Public Charge” rule, the utilization of available health resources among immigrants and their
families has effectively decreased due to pandemic. In the long term, US immigrant populations
will manifest as decreased funding for health, education, and socioeconomic programs in many
disadvantaged communities [6].
The spread of Coronavirus disease in Azerbaijan began in February with the first case of
contamination that was recorded on February 2020. It is assumed that the primary source of
disease came from individuals who headed out to Azerbaijan from Iran. The measure of cash
assigned from the state budget to pay the pay rates of laborers, operating in the areas that were
influenced by the pandemic, was made out of 69 million ₼119.000 ($40 million 658,235).
Azerbaijan as a post-soviet nation, allotted the biggest portion of GDP, to eliminate the
economic challenges caused by the outbreak of COVID-19.
The economy of Azerbaijan was seriously influenced by COVID-19 due to a fall in oil prices. On
April 9, 2020, 23 members of OPEC+ examined the recession due to the spread of Covid-19 and
consented to cut the production of oil by 9.7 million barrels each day, beginning from May 1,
2020. As indicated by the official data given by the State Statistics Committee, the GDP produced
in the country between January-June 2020 added up to ₼ 33,803.9 million ($19 million
884,647), which is 2.7 % less in comparison with a similar period a year ago [7].
According to Azerbaijan's State Migration Service (SMS) in its reaction to the Global Detention
Project's COVID-19 review in June, different measures were executed at the beginning of the
pandemic to secure the health of immigration detainees. The GDP has not received independent
verification of these measures. The country's immigration body revealed that placement in
detention of foreigners and stateless persons found to be irregularly present, and the
deportation of non-nationals, was suspended in the wake of the application of a special
quarantine regime on 24 March 2020. The immigration authority additionally demonstrated
that assessments were conducted to identify vulnerable groups in detention who were
especially in danger from COVID-19, and that clinical assessments and observing of detainees'
wellbeing were being done [8].