The ‘New Normal’ in Migration Management in Serbia in Times of the COVID-19 Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has had severe consequences for the large-scale movement of populations within and across borders. Moreover, crisis serious impacts on origin, transit destination countries, as well migrant workers their families. This paper aims to enhance understanding migration contexts in times crises, migrant-specific vulnerabilities, including characteristics stranded migrants Serbia. Two phenomena have interacted influence shape intensity mobility country during pandemic: that citizens returning from abroad wake economic downturn changing labour markets, irregular asylum seekers along Western Balkan Migration Route. An emphasis is placed challenges faced by migrants, those itself terms governance management crisis, questioning existence barriers access support. Despite fact these different groups will experience crises differently, it important explore capacity assist them, both while origin transit.