Abstract
Based on approaches to the relationship between health and migration, the article analyzes the social and health conditions of international migrants working in the slaughterhouses for meat and meat products, in the cities of the interior of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, in the context of the pandemic de COVID 19. Difficulties in accessing health and basic rights (such as biosafety), racial discrimination, xenophobia and socioeconomic vulnerabilities are factors that mark the working conditions of these migrants in slaughterhouses in the south of the country. The conclusions point to the need to implement public health policies that incorporate new forms of adaptation and integration of individuals and groups, derived from migratory processes, and mitigation of the social vulnerabilities and health iniquities to which these workers are exposed, to face the pandemic.
Keywords:
health and migrations; COVID-19; slaughterhouses; pandemic