More than nine-in-ten people worldwide live in countries with travel restrictions amid COVID-19
The movement of people across borders has halted in much of the world as countries close their borders in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Former Senior Researcher
Phillip Connor is a senior researcher at Pew Research Center. He is an expert on internationalย migration, immigrant integration and immigrant religion in the United States, Canada and Europe. Connor prepares reports on immigration and religion, consults with demographic and public opinion researchers at the Center on migration aspects of their work, and analyses data. Before joining Pew Research Center, Connor received his doctorate in sociology at Princeton University. He was the lead author of the Centerโs reportsย Faith on the Moveย and Still in Limbo: About a Million Asylum Seekers Await Word on Whether They Can Call Europe Home.ย He is also the author of the bookย Immigrant Faithย and has published several academic articles in leading migration and religion journals.ย His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Time and the Economist.
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