Implications of COVID-19 for Arab Refugees and Migrants’ Integration into Europe

The world was hit by Covid amid consecutive waves of asylum seeking and migration from societies where there are organized violence and international wars, climate crises and famines, or economic and political crises. These people were used to lifestyles that are different from the lifestyles, conditions and contexts of the European countries, notably Germany. Amid the Syrian civil war, Europe received over a million Syrian refugees, along with thousands from Afghanistan, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries, according to UNHCR statistics.1 With the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants, focus shifted from how to provide better living for them and ensure their safety to how to integrate them into the host societies.