As Covid-19 continues to destroy livelihoods across the world, its impact is being felt especially keenly by women in countries such as Tajikistan, which depends on money sent home by migrants.
Hundreds of thousands of Tajik men were grounded when the pandemic froze travel to and from Russia, leaving them unable to migrate for seasonal work, reports gender and migration specialist Jenna Holliday on the Bristol Migration and Mobilities blog. Thousands, who were stuck in Russia, still lost their jobs.
