Collective Discussion

Movement and Carceral Spatiality in the Pandemic

Bibliographic Data

ID7433152
AuthorsReiko Shindo (0000-0001-5145-4545, Tampere University), Özlem Altan‐olcay (0000-0003-0177-2726, Koç University), Evren Balta (0000-0001-6364-4426, Özyeğin University), H Van Houtum (0000-0003-3719-143X, Radboud University Nijmegen), Annelies Van Uden (0000-0002-9378-3248, Utrecht University), Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University), Matt Coward (0000-0003-1336-4017, University of Manchester), Saara Pellander (0000-0002-0432-4390, Migration Institute of Finland), J Huysmans (0000-0002-7265-018X, Queen Mary University of London)
Year2023
Volume17
Issue3
Publication date2023-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ips/olad011
OpenAlexW4385405501
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited73

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

Framing (construction · Opposition (politics · Pandemic · Psychological nativism · Global Security and Public Health · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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