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Towards a Novel Mobility Regime? The Legacies of the COVID-19 Pandemic Regarding the Governance of Human Movement
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Towards a Novel Mobility Regime? The Legacies of the COVID-19 Pandemic Regarding the Governance of Human Movement
Description
The policy response to COVID-19 has involved extraordinary efforts to govern human movement and resulted in differing degrees of openness and closure at various scales. This project investigates the past and future legacies of these efforts: it studies how the measures have affected how the governance of human movement is being conceived, implemented, technologically mediated, and lived.
We apply a qualitative approach focused on three work packages (a baseline study and two in-depth case studies) covering the following fields: Governance of national borders; Monitoring of people on the move ; Control of spatial security enclaves. For each field, we analyze the logics of bordering, boundary-making and securitization inherent in the responses to COVID-19.
On this basis, the project develops an integrative theoretical model to understand the particular mobility regime that crystallized at the critical junctural moment of the COVID-19 crisis.
We apply a qualitative approach focused on three work packages (a baseline study and two in-depth case studies) covering the following fields: Governance of national borders; Monitoring of people on the move ; Control of spatial security enclaves. For each field, we analyze the logics of bordering, boundary-making and securitization inherent in the responses to COVID-19.
On this basis, the project develops an integrative theoretical model to understand the particular mobility regime that crystallized at the critical junctural moment of the COVID-19 crisis.
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Date de début
2022
Date de fin
2026
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- PublicationAccès libreThe ‘permanentification’ of a regime of crisis: reinforced and enduring bordering and normalization of right-wing narratives(2025-07-08)
; ; In public and political discourses, 2015 was constructed as the peak of a ‘refugee crisis.’ While a crisis is supposed to be temporary by definition, it seems that many references to migration have since been associated with the label ‘crisis.’ We argue that a ‘permanentification’ of a regime of crisis has been taking place over the last years. We use the term ‘permanentification’ in the sense of a process by which a state of exception is normalized and enduring. This can be observed in two key dimensions, each with significant consequences: on the one hand, exceptional measures have become routinized, institutionalized, and normalized; on the other hand, right-wing narratives have been mainstreamed to an unprecedented degree. Taken together, these dynamics reinforce existing necropolitics, institutionalize violence, and deepen exclusion. - PublicationAccès libreCOVID-19 and the Search for Continuity in the Swiss Asylum Regime(2023-12-14)How are public health and asylum governance connected? During the COVID-19 pandemic, migration authorities took measures to maintain a certain continuity in asylum governance in Switzerland. By studying the pandemic’s impact on the asylum regime, we not only see the importance of uninterrupted movement to it, but we also realize that the historical sanitary bordering on migranticized groups persists.