Key Considerations: COVID-19 Management in Marginalized Populations in Southeast Asia: Transnational Migrants, Informal Workers, and People Living in Informal Settlements

These vulnerable groups are generally poorly understood, ignored, or left out of formal policy and as such represent an area of concern for disease control in the region more generally.

This brief summarizes the vulnerabilities associated with the limited legal and social protection of these groups, and it is not a systematic study of COVID-19 control measures and impacts across the region. It does, however, include information on alternative, parallel, or informal responses that are relevant to COVID-19 control in the region.

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