1. Shifting Attitudes: The Impact of Covid-19 on Perceptions towards Immigrants in Africa • Giorgio d'Agostino, Università Roma Tre; Donatella Lanari, University of Perugia; Luca Pieroni, University of Perugia.

2. Reconceptualizing the “Rural Problematique”: “The Migrant” as the Demonstrative Case for Policy Inertia • Stacey Haugen, University of Lethbridge; Lars Hallstrom, University of Lethbridge.

3. Progress in the Collection and Utilization of International Migration Data in the 2020 round of Population Censuses: The Case for South Africa • Ntsieni I. Itani, Statistics South Africa.

4. Conflict-Induced Migration Research: Evidence to Support Policy? • Jorge Mancilla, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

5. Legal Status and Occupational Trajectory: The Role of Previous Irregular Histories in Italy and France • Rocco Molinari, University of Bologna; Cris Beauchemin, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED); Ariane Pailhé, Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED).