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B U ILDING RESILIENT MIGR A TION S Y STEMS IN T H E MEDITERR A NE A N REGION
Map 1.1 The extended Mediterranean region
Countries covered in report IBRD 46410 | FEBRUARY 2022
Source: World Bank. Note: The extended Mediterranean region (shaded blue) includes Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, the Arab Republic of Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, the Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, and West Bank and Gaza. It also includes the Gulf Cooperation Council states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
responses that can help countries restart migration safely and better respond to future shocks. The COVID-19 crisis has posed severe challenges to lives and livelihoods across the globe. In the Mediterranean region specifically, migration has always been an important source of economic prosperity not only for migrants but also for the countries that send and receive them. Given the importance of migration to the economic and social well-being of the region’s people, this report sheds light on the pandemic’s short- and long-term impacts on these migrant and nonmigrant communities. In so doing, it also explores whether mobility can still be expected to play a central role in the Mediterranean region in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak. Distinguishing between new challenges posed by the COVID-19 crisis and pre existing issues exacerbated by the pandemic, the report not only proposes policies for
