Collective Discussion: Movement and Carceral Spatiality in the Pandemic

Reiko Shindo; Özlem Altan-Olcay; Evren Balta; Henk van Houtum; Annelies van Uden; Prem Kumar Rajaram; Martin Coward; Saara Pellander; Jef Huysmans

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Collective Discussion: Movement and Carceral Spatiality in the Pandemic

Reiko Shindo^*, Özlem Altan-Olcay, Evren Balta, Henk van Houtum, Annelies van Uden, Prem Kumar Rajaram, Martin Coward, Saara Pellander, Jef Huysmans

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	olad011
Number of pages	29
Journal	International Political Sociology
Volume	17
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olad011
Publication status	Published - Sept 2023

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COVID-19 pandemic
carcerality
migration
movement
space

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