The Detrimental Impacts of Restrictive Immigration Policies During Global Health Crises: Health Inequities and Mobility Crisis

摘要

The pivotal role of Legislative Policy Entrepreneurs (LPE) in reshaping and promoting immigration policies amid significant global health crises has been a persistent research interest for policy analysts and political scientists in recent years [6],[41],[42]. Usually, LPE is an elected official who primarily functions as a change agent to influence and promote policies and measures during a policy window. This study mainly focuses on the role of LPE during global health crises in the 20th century. Furthermore, this study also analyzes LPE's influences and impacts during global health crises in reshaping and implementing immigration policies. Policy analysts argue that the LPE exploits the health crises of the twentieth century as a policy window to promote and implement politically motivated restrictive immigration policies, resulting in inequitable access to health services and a major mobility problem for immigrants in their host country. [26],[50],[51]. This article will first present the theoretical concept of policy entrepreneurship and how they function as change agents in agenda-setting and policy development. The next section will consolidate and present the existing studies and analysis on policy entrepreneurs and their strategic activities using a political science and public policy and administration prism. Further to that, this work would link disparate studies on the LPE's role in influencing immigration policies during global health crises. Finally, this paper would identify differences in the literature on the complex dynamics of immigration policies during public health emergencies and their interdependence on the local political climate.