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Key Considerations: Engaging 'People on the Move' to Promote COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Italy

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dc.creator Torre, Costanza
dc.date 2022-05-20T15:10:36Z
dc.date 2022-05-20T15:10:36Z
dc.date 2022-05-20
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:56:09Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:56:09Z
dc.identifier Torre, C. (2022) Key Considerations: Engaging 'People on the Move' to Promote COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Italy, Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP), DOI: 10.19088/SSHAP.2022.011
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/17413
dc.identifier 10.19088/SSHAP.2022.011
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/199195
dc.description This key considerations brief outlines perceptions, understandings and experiences of COVID-19 vaccination among ‘people on the move’ in Italy. For an increasing number of such people, Italy is considered a transit destination to reach other European countries. Considerations in this brief are relevant to countries situated along Eastern and Central Mediterranean migrant routes. EU policymakers have expressed concern about the vulnerability of mobile populations – a group which includes refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants – in relation to COVID-19. Due to the extreme mobility of these populations, coupled with a fear of state authorities, public health experts have linked communities to a heightened risk of COVID-19 transmission within and across national borders. Yet, the same factors which link mobile populations to transmission of COVID-19 also make these individuals hard to reach through state-led vaccination campaigns. This brief highlights the complexities of this humanitarian situation and provides advice as to vaccination approaches which take account of people’s specific vulnerabilities and priorities. This brief draws on research conducted along Italy’s Alpine border in 2021. This brief was developed for SSHAP by Costanza Torre (LSE) with support from Elizabeth Storer (LSE) and Sara Vallerani (Roma Tre University). Additionally, contributions and reviews were provided by Megan Schmidt-Sane (IDS), Eloisa Franchi (Université Paris Saclay – Pavia University), and Professor Federico Federici (UCL). This brief is the responsibility of SSHAP. The research was funded through the British Academy COVID-19 Recovery: G7 Fund (COVG7210058). Research was based at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, London School of Economics. The brief is the responsibility of SSHAP.
dc.description Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
dc.description Wellcome Trust
dc.language en
dc.publisher SSHAP
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights SSHAP
dc.subject Health
dc.subject Migration
dc.title Key Considerations: Engaging 'People on the Move' to Promote COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance in Italy
dc.type Series paper (non-IDS)
dc.coverage Italy


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