Shock mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty

The COVID-19 pandemic and interventions addressing it raise important questions about human mobility that have geopolitical implications. This forum uses mobility and immobility during the pandemic as lenses onto the ways that routinised state power reacts to acute uncertainties, as well as how thes...

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Main Authors: XIANG, Biao, ALLEN, William L., KHOSRAVI, Shahram, KRINGELBACH, Helene Neveu, ORTIGA, Yasmin Y., LIAO, Karen Anne S., CUELLAR Jorge E., MOMEN, Lamea, DESHINGKAR, Priya, and NAIK, Mukta
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-49162024-03-04T05:07:24Z Shock mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty XIANG, Biao ALLEN, William L. KHOSRAVI, Shahram KRINGELBACH, Helene Neveu ORTIGA, Yasmin Y. LIAO, Karen Anne S. CUELLAR Jorge E., MOMEN, Lamea DESHINGKAR, Priya and NAIK, Mukta The COVID-19 pandemic and interventions addressing it raise important questions about human mobility that have geopolitical implications. This forum uses mobility and immobility during the pandemic as lenses onto the ways that routinised state power reacts to acute uncertainties, as well as how these reactions impact politics and societies. Specifically, we propose the concept of "shock mobility" as migratory routines radically reconfigured: emergency flights from epicentres, mass repatriations, lockdowns, quarantines. Patterns of shock mobility and immobility are not new categories of movement, but rather are significant alterations to the timing, duration, intensity, and relations among existing movements. Many of these alterations have been induced by governments' reactions to the pandemic in both migrant-sending and receiving contexts, which can be especially consequential for migrants in and from the Global South. Our interventions explore these processes by highlighting experiences of Afghans and Kurds along Iran's borders, Western Africans in Europe, Filipino workers, irregular Bangladeshis in Qatar, Central Americans travelling northwards via Mexico, and rural-urban migrants in India. In total, we argue that tracing shocks' dynamics in a comparative manner provides an analytical means for assessing the long-term implications of the pandemic, building theories about how and why any particular post-crisis world emerges as it does, and paving the way for future empirical work. 2023-04-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3658 info:doi/10.1080/14650045.2022.2091314 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4916/viewcontent/Shock_Mobilities_During_Moments_of_Acute_Uncertainty.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University COVID-19 epidemic disease spread mobility geopolitics state Migration Studies Public Health Sociology
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topic COVID-19
epidemic
disease spread
mobility
geopolitics
state
Migration Studies
Public Health
Sociology
spellingShingle COVID-19
epidemic
disease spread
mobility
geopolitics
state
Migration Studies
Public Health
Sociology
XIANG, Biao
ALLEN, William L.
KHOSRAVI, Shahram
KRINGELBACH, Helene Neveu
ORTIGA, Yasmin Y.
LIAO, Karen Anne S.
CUELLAR Jorge E.,
MOMEN, Lamea
DESHINGKAR, Priya
and NAIK, Mukta
Shock mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty
description The COVID-19 pandemic and interventions addressing it raise important questions about human mobility that have geopolitical implications. This forum uses mobility and immobility during the pandemic as lenses onto the ways that routinised state power reacts to acute uncertainties, as well as how these reactions impact politics and societies. Specifically, we propose the concept of "shock mobility" as migratory routines radically reconfigured: emergency flights from epicentres, mass repatriations, lockdowns, quarantines. Patterns of shock mobility and immobility are not new categories of movement, but rather are significant alterations to the timing, duration, intensity, and relations among existing movements. Many of these alterations have been induced by governments' reactions to the pandemic in both migrant-sending and receiving contexts, which can be especially consequential for migrants in and from the Global South. Our interventions explore these processes by highlighting experiences of Afghans and Kurds along Iran's borders, Western Africans in Europe, Filipino workers, irregular Bangladeshis in Qatar, Central Americans travelling northwards via Mexico, and rural-urban migrants in India. In total, we argue that tracing shocks' dynamics in a comparative manner provides an analytical means for assessing the long-term implications of the pandemic, building theories about how and why any particular post-crisis world emerges as it does, and paving the way for future empirical work.
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author XIANG, Biao
ALLEN, William L.
KHOSRAVI, Shahram
KRINGELBACH, Helene Neveu
ORTIGA, Yasmin Y.
LIAO, Karen Anne S.
CUELLAR Jorge E.,
MOMEN, Lamea
DESHINGKAR, Priya
and NAIK, Mukta
author_facet XIANG, Biao
ALLEN, William L.
KHOSRAVI, Shahram
KRINGELBACH, Helene Neveu
ORTIGA, Yasmin Y.
LIAO, Karen Anne S.
CUELLAR Jorge E.,
MOMEN, Lamea
DESHINGKAR, Priya
and NAIK, Mukta
author_sort XIANG, Biao
title Shock mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty
title_short Shock mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty
title_full Shock mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty
title_fullStr Shock mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty
title_full_unstemmed Shock mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty
title_sort shock mobilities during moments of acute uncertainty
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2023
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3658
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4916/viewcontent/Shock_Mobilities_During_Moments_of_Acute_Uncertainty.pdf
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