Essential and Invisible: Filipino irregular migrants in the UK’s ongoing COVID-19 crisis
For many in the United Kingdom, it might feel as if the “crisis” of the COVID-19 pandemic is coming to an end. Yet for irregular migrants, the pandemic has become a protracted struggle to survive.
This report is based on interviews with Filipino irregular migrants based in the UK conducted in Spring 2021, compared to the same interviewees’ responses in Spring 2020.
Hear our voices
This zine was produced by migrants from the Philippines living in the UK with precarious legal status, or without leave to remain. It was created through three workshops devised to articulate wants, needs and hopes for life during or ‘after’ the Covid-19 pandemic, and foster warmth and solidarity.