This paper explores the social impacts of COVID-19 on migrants living in three major African cities: Accra, Johannesburg, and Nairobi. Given the importance of social support networks to mobile populations, particularly in areas with limited access to essential services, understanding how the pandemic...
While COVID-19's public health and economic impacts are evident, its sociocultural impacts are often overlooked. This study takes the case of the Italian destination of Pisa during the early stages of the pandemic – when most infection cases were assumed to be imported from China - and inves...
As such, this article aims to answer the question: What considerations should be made when examining the impact of COVID-19 on the social enterprise sector? This paper argues that close attention must be paid to social enterprise: (1) financial performance, challenges, and opportunities , (2)...
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between the indicators for COVID-19 monitoring and the dynamic of jumps across six major financial markets including China, France, Italy, Germany, the UK, and the US. First, this paper finds that jumps occurred more frequently in the index return...
We argue that Indigenous university students are at risk of experiencing multiple, intersecting and cumulative forms of isolation in the forced migration to online learning, due to COVID-19. Our argument is dystopian, but not another deficit narrative about Indigenous people and education. Rather, ...
Introduction: Sleep plays an important role in the balance of the human body. Its deprivation influences the development of cardiovascular, metabolic, psychological, and learning disorders. The restrictions imposed by Covid-19 on social activities affected the routine of many people, including university...
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After being forced to relocate from their MIT dorms during the COVID-19 crisis, two members of Professor Rebecca Saxe's lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research are now applying their psychology skills to study the impact of mandatory relocation and social isolation on mental health. ...
The short-term impact of Covid-19 is immediately and effortlessly felt, due to the widespread lockdown and social distancing measures globally. However the pandemic will end, it is already set to have long-lasting profound economic, social, political, and cultural impacts. In this paper, we ...
Given the direct risks of COVID-19, the potential impact of social distancing recommendations on the access to health care services, exercise practices, and mental health in general, it is likely that PwPD have also been indirectly affected by the pandemic. In order to provide guidance to ...