Migration during the covid-19 pandemic: The limits of mobility and social inequality

Simona Zavratnik and Sanja Cukut Krilić published the article Migration during the covid-19 pandemic: The limits of mobility and social inequality in the journal Theory and Practice (vol. 58 1/2021). The article discusses the connection between the Covid-19 pandemic, migration and exclusion from a safe place of residence. The fundamental consideration addresses the complexity of the new circumstances of migration and refugee routes, when borders have become impassable for everyone, not just refugees, and at the same time, the issue of mobility across borders is joined by the scary double of the contagious other. With the corona crisis, sedentariness has become a new imperative for global mobility. The thesis of the authors is that the borders of the pandemic have become the borders of mobility, whereby the #stayathome imperative as the main point of anti-corona policies overlooks social groups and many individuals from the social fringes who do not have access to a safe space of isolation, including migrants and refugees.