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The flows of COVID-19 across global terrains work unequally, impacting disproportionately the margins of global spaces. Refugees constitute the “margins of the margins” of globalization, constituted in spaces without access to rights and pathways of citizenship, and living through the effects of violence targeted at them.
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Rahman, M.M., Dutta, M.J. (2023). The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on the Health of Rohingya Refugees. In: Kaur-Gill, S., Dutta, M.J. (eds) Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic . Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7384-0_3
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