Eloise Thompson | nccr – on the move https://nccr-blog.flake.work Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:12:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Lessons from COVID-19: Transformative Categories and Mobility Regimes https://nccr-blog.flake.work/lessons-from-covid-19-transformative-categories-and-mobility-regimes/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/lessons-from-covid-19-transformative-categories-and-mobility-regimes/#respond Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:30:09 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9657 In the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign-born workers contributed to maintaining the essential services on which the UK depends. They faced the double edge of public gratitude in contrast with insecure working and living conditions, compounded by often precarious immigration status. Recognizing the essential worker status could be a catalyst for transformative

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/lessons-from-covid-19-transformative-categories-and-mobility-regimes/feed/ 0 COVID-19 and Key Workers at the Intersections of Inequalities and Everyday Mobilities https://nccr-blog.flake.work/navigating-inequality-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-key-workers-and-their-everyday-mobilities/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/navigating-inequality-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-key-workers-and-their-everyday-mobilities/#respond Thu, 21 Dec 2023 08:00:46 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9196 This blog takes a closer look at the category of key workers as a method to govern mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic. This category revealed and emphasized the ways in which mobility intersects with inequalities. Yet, while these inequalities were made visible at an extraordinary time, the pandemic was not

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/navigating-inequality-the-impact-of-covid-19-on-key-workers-and-their-everyday-mobilities/feed/ 0 Towards a Novel Mobility Regime? The Legacies of the COVID-19 Pandemic Regarding the Governance of Human Movement https://nccr-blog.flake.work/towards-a-novel-mobility-regime-the-legacies-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-regarding-the-governance-of-human-movement/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/towards-a-novel-mobility-regime-the-legacies-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-regarding-the-governance-of-human-movement/#respond Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:30:11 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9083 Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, authorities deployed a myriad of “exceptional” measures that severely impacted the possibilities of human movement. States restricted, controlled and monitored people on the move at various social and spatial scales. The emerging “regime of (im)mobility” turned out to be highly differential and

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/towards-a-novel-mobility-regime-the-legacies-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-regarding-the-governance-of-human-movement/feed/ 0 Race, Rootedness and the Geographies of Sanctuary During the Pandemic https://nccr-blog.flake.work/race-rootedness-and-the-geographies-of-sanctuary-during-the-pandemic/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/race-rootedness-and-the-geographies-of-sanctuary-during-the-pandemic/#respond Wed, 08 Feb 2023 09:41:14 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=8598 During a crisis, like the COVID-19 pandemic, there seems to be an instinctive turn towards sanctuary and roots. In 2020, repatriation flights and exceptions from travel restrictions allowed particular categories of travelers to return home. But our ideas about sanctuary are also restrictive, implicitly leaning on often racialized assumptions about

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