 COVID-19 has brought home the importance of well-governed migration for prosperous and LC societies. It has also demonstrated the risks of reduced human mobility for sustainable development and the attainment of agenda 2030. The imposition of totally unprecedented mobility restrictions around the world put in place to control the transmission of COVID-19, understandably, has slowed economies, leaving migrants, particularly women and girls, and the less skilled migrants out of work. It has reduced activity in sectors that are highly reliant on migrant labor, such as tourism and travel. It has limited the ability of many migrants to cross borders, to take up employment, or even to go back home. But this is just one facet of the impact on migrants and displaced persons. An estimated 19 to 30 million additional people living in fragile and conflict-affected settings have been pushed during the last 18 months to extreme poverty, threatening to double the number of food insecure individuals to a staring figure of 270 million today globally, and increasing the potential negative drivers of migration and displacement on a global scale. Particularly relevant is a recent report that IOM has published with the World Food Programme on the links between food insecurity and climate change and forced displacement. Over the past two years, the situation of many migrants has been exacerbated, more vulnerable due to greater exposure to the disease itself, and with limited access to health services and information. Many migrants were left stranded by border closures, having lost jobs, housing, and means of material support. Too often, migrants have become an afterthought to those responding to the crisis, or worse, they have become scapegoats to blame for the pandemic. The crisis as once again demonstrated the invaluable role that transnational networks and connections developed through decades of migration play in mitigating the pandemic impacts. Migrants were among the first respondents to the pandemic in hospitals, fighting the pandemic alongside native doctors and nurses. Transnational communities and diaspora scaled up their support to the communities of origin, both by sending financial resources back home, but also helping with transfer of medical knowledge via telemedicine and virtual consultations. We must seize this opportunity to create more resilient societies, and societies that can better respond to future crises.