Covid-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism

Bibliographic Data

ID2323277
AuthorsDaniel Nehring (0000-0002-5346-6301, East China University of Science and Technology), Yang Hu (0000-0003-2027-8491, Lancaster University, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume56
Issue1
Pages183-190
Publication date2022-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00380385211033729
OpenAlexW3198625242
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited20

In this intervention, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has reconfigured transnational mobilities, connections, and solidarities, which reveals the fragility of transnationalism predicated on cosmopolitan ethics but rooted in nation-level politics. We show that as the pandemic severely disrupted transnational (infra)structures predicated on state-centric transnationalism from above, the survival and well-being of diverse transnationally mobile groups, such as refugees, transnational families, and international students, have been placed under unprecedented threat. In doing so, we reflect on the configurations of transnationalism in sociological understandings of globalisation, in and beyond the context of COVID-19. We advance an urgent call for action to address the consequences of the pandemic for vulnerable people who lead precarious lives in a transnational limbo caught in the gaps between nation-states

Context (archaeology) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Geography · Globalization · Immigration · Mobilities · Pandemic · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Transnationalism · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy