Towards a Novel Mobility Regime | nccr – on the move https://nccr-blog.flake.work Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:23:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 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 The Biopolitics of Fan Filtering : Qatar’s Post-Pandemic Mobility Regime https://nccr-blog.flake.work/the-biopolitics-of-fan-filtering-qatars-post-pandemic-mobility-regime/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/the-biopolitics-of-fan-filtering-qatars-post-pandemic-mobility-regime/#respond Tue, 19 Dec 2023 12:56:26 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9176 During the FIFA 2022 World Cup, Qatar devised several ad hoc migration policies to dramatically curb the total number of visitors in favor of a preferred type of soccer fan: well-off and depoliticized. Profiting from a global state of exception during the COVID-19 pandemic, Doha further refined its mobility regime

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/the-biopolitics-of-fan-filtering-qatars-post-pandemic-mobility-regime/feed/ 0 COVID-19 and the Search for Continuity in the Swiss Asylum Regime https://nccr-blog.flake.work/covid-19-and-the-search-for-continuity-in-the-swiss-asylum-regime/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/covid-19-and-the-search-for-continuity-in-the-swiss-asylum-regime/#respond Thu, 14 Dec 2023 08:39:51 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9168 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

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/covid-19-and-the-search-for-continuity-in-the-swiss-asylum-regime/feed/ 0 COVID-19 and Migration: The Legacy of Economization https://nccr-blog.flake.work/covid-19-and-migration-the-legacy-of-economization/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/covid-19-and-migration-the-legacy-of-economization/#respond Tue, 12 Dec 2023 09:12:23 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9159 One of the tendencies observed when studying migration governance during the COVID-19 pandemic globally, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has been a quick return to the pre-pandemic logic of the neoliberal state. This is remarkable when compared with the anti-immigrant rhetoric within official discourse and the rapid expansion

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/covid-19-and-migration-the-legacy-of-economization/feed/ 0 The Connections Between Governance of Human Movement and Governance of Breathing Air During the COVID-19 Pandemic https://nccr-blog.flake.work/the-connections-between-governance-of-human-movement-and-governance-of-breathing-air-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/the-connections-between-governance-of-human-movement-and-governance-of-breathing-air-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/#respond Tue, 05 Dec 2023 08:30:06 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9137 During the COVID-19 pandemic, the act of breathing air became a central policy focus, tied to people’s ability to move. From wearing mandatory masks to navigating public spaces, the governance of breathing air became an essential part of the management of mobility. What will remain after COVID-19 from this increased

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/the-connections-between-governance-of-human-movement-and-governance-of-breathing-air-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/feed/ 0 Pandemic Citizenship: Ruptures or Reinforcements of Old Trends? https://nccr-blog.flake.work/pandemic-citizenship-ruptures-or-reinforcements-of-old-trends/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/pandemic-citizenship-ruptures-or-reinforcements-of-old-trends/#respond Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:30:02 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9131 How much has the pandemic changed the governance of citizenship? Which ad hoc responses to the global health crisis have become embedded in ways states allocate rights and obligations to their citizens, and which ones have withered away? The pandemic has opened up a number of avenues to reflect on

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/pandemic-citizenship-ruptures-or-reinforcements-of-old-trends/feed/ 0 Care at the Intersection of Mobility and Gender/Sexuality Regimes: Past Legacies https://nccr-blog.flake.work/care-at-the-intersection-of-mobility-and-gender-sexuality-regimes/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/care-at-the-intersection-of-mobility-and-gender-sexuality-regimes/#respond Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:17:37 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9119 Following the COVID-19 pandemic, problematic past legacies emerged from the intersection of mobility and gender/sexuality regimes. By diving into these continuities, I examine two compelling case studies – domestic caregivers and sex workers. These cases allow me to study how a global, but also a national, crisis of care emerged

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/care-at-the-intersection-of-mobility-and-gender-sexuality-regimes/feed/ 0 Covid-19 and the Mediterranean Mobility Regime https://nccr-blog.flake.work/covid-19-and-the-mediterranean-mobility-regime/ https://nccr-blog.flake.work/covid-19-and-the-mediterranean-mobility-regime/#respond Thu, 16 Nov 2023 08:22:55 +0000 https://nccr-onthemove.ch/blog/?p=9103 As Covid-19 emerged globally, the pandemic was seized as an opportunity to experiment with forms of hygienic-sanitary containment and deterrence, often targeting vulnerable mobile populations. While the virus did not “respect” borders, borders multiplied, both on land and at sea. Yet, despite varied attempts, the Mediterranean Sea could not be

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]]> https://nccr-blog.flake.work/covid-19-and-the-mediterranean-mobility-regime/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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