Their lives are even more on hold now

Migrants' experiences of waiting and immobility during the Covid-19 pandemic

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3978301
AutoresMattias De Backer (0000-0002-3434-4800, University of Liège, autor de correspondencia), Pascale Felten (University of Liège), Elisabeth Kirndörfer (0000-0002-9197-1093, University of Bonn), Mieke Kox (0000-0003-0332-5030, Erasmus University Rotterdam), Robert Finlay (0000-0002-2789-2614, Newcastle University)
Año2023
Volumen24
Número10
Páginas1846-1862
Fecha de publicación2023-11-26
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649365.2022.2111699
OpenAlexW4291305237
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas38

Several recent studies have examined experiences of waiting and spatial and temporal immobility among refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. This paper investigates recent migrants’ experiences of waiting and (spatial and temporal) immobility in the context of COVID-19 lockdowns, and against the background of pandemic isolation and boredom. It asks how public health measures affected ‘recently’ arrived migrants’ and how these migrants experienced waiting and immobility differently before and during the pandemic. We argue that differences in recent migrants’ status and housing situations shape how they experience immobility during and beyond the pandemic. This paper contributes to research on immobility in migration by highlighting the importance of diverse emotional geographies of loneliness and frustration; it concludes that immobility is situated along an isolation-to-agitation continuum

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Boredom · Context (archaeology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Criminology · Demographic economics · Geography · Isolation (microbiology · Loneliness · Outbreak · Pandemic · Political science · Psychiatry · Refugee · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · Situated · Social isolation · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies