The 2020 public health crisis aroused very diverse reactions within the European Union in terms of migration policy. Initially these measures impacted migrant works in essential sectors of the Union's internal economy (including healthcare and agriculture). Then when it came to getting the economy restarted, these workers had to return to work, very often without sufficient account being taken of their precarious situation and safety. In this context, the existing migration systems played a dual role: channels used by States in the earliest days of the crisis, but then remobilised by the workers who wanted their rights and their safety to be respected.
