Publication: Collective discussion: movement and carceral spatiality in the pandemic
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College of Administrative Sciences and Economics
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Shindo, Reiko
Balta, Evren
van Houtum, Henk
van Uden, Annelies
Rajaram, Prem Kumar
Coward, Martin
Pellander, Saara
Huysmans, Jef
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Various measures of mobility restrictions were introduced since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This collective discussion examines them in relation to six different carceral techniques that govern movement: citizenship, nativism, colonialism, infrastructure, gender, and borders. We investigate how these spatializing techniques of carcerality have been modified and strengthened in the pandemic and their implications for how we conceptualize migration. Our conversation revolves around the relationality between movement and confinement to argue that they are not in opposition but work in tandem: Their meanings become interchangeable, and their relationship is reconfigured. In this collective discussion, we are interested in how to analyze movement/migration in ways that do not define the pandemic through temporal boundaries to mark its beginning and ending.
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Oxford University Press
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International relations, Political science, Sociology
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International Political Sociology
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10.1093/ips/olad011