How to Cite: International Journal of Health Sciences ISSN 2550-6978 E-ISSN 2550-696X © 2022. Manuscript submitted: 18 Feb 2022, Manuscript revised: 09 March 2022, Accepted for publication: 27 April 2022 2101 The effects of COVID-19 on migrant workers in Ecuador: A legal and social study Mercedes Navarro Cejas Universidad Técnica de Manabí, Portoviejo, Manabí, Ecuador Corresponding author email: mercedes.navarro@utm.edu.ec Vladimir Vega Falcon Universidad Regional Autónoma de Los Andes, Ambato, Ecuador Magda Francisca Cejas Martínez Universidad Nacional del Chimborazo. UNACH, Universidad Fuerzas Armadas Edith Josefina Liccioni Universidad Nacional del Chimborazo, Chimborazo, Ecuador Juan Pablo Rúa Valencia Investigador-Juez First Level of the Unidad Judicial, Guayaquil, Ecuador Abstract---The migrant population continues to this day to be not only the main engine of world economies but also part of those who make up the vulnerable groups in society. This study aims to analyze the effects that COVID 19 has had on migrant workers in Ecuador at a legal and social level before and after the pandemic. A qualitative ethnographic design study was carried out, framed at the exploratory level, when addressing an almost unknown problem in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The interview was validated through the criteria of experts in law and research methodology. The sampling technique was non-probabilistic. The data collection instrument was the researcher himself, who, through the interview, was able to collect the narrative data in the natural and daily environments of the participants. It was an observational type of study; prospective; cross; and descriptive while, from the point of view of jurisprudence, it was socio-legal. It was determined that in Ecuador, although with the help of international organizations such as the IOM or the ILO, spaces have been achieved for the application of public policies for migrants, neither sufficient legal measures have been implemented for this population nor provisions specific regulations for migrant workers as a specific group. Keywords---COVID-19, law, migrant, woman, workers.