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New Vulnerabilities for Migrants and Refugees in State Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19

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  • Claudia Tazreiter

    (Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden)

  • Simon Metcalfe

    (Research Assistant, Forced Migration Research Network, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia)

Abstract

This article examines the global pandemic, COVID-19, through the lens of responses to vulnerable migrants, asking what state responses mean for the future of human rights values and for humanitarian interventions. The responses of the Australian state are developed as a case study of actions and policies directed at refugees and temporary migrant workers through the COVID-19 pandemic. The theoretical framing of the article draws on racial capitalism to argue that the developments manifest during the ‘crisis times’ of COVID-19 are in large part a continuity of the exclusionary politics of bordering practices at the heart of neoliberal capitalism. The article proposes that a rethinking of foundational theoretical and methodological approaches in the social sciences are needed to reflect contemporary changes in justice claims, claims that increasingly recognize the multi-species nature of existential threats to all life.

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  • Claudia Tazreiter & Simon Metcalfe, 2021. "New Vulnerabilities for Migrants and Refugees in State Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(9), pages 1-15, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:10:y:2021:i:9:p:342-:d:634889
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    1. Theodoros Fouskas & George Koulierakis & Fotini-Maria Mine & Athanasios Theofilopoulos & Sofia Konstantopoulou & Fabiola Ortega-de-Mora & Dimitrios Georgiadis & Georgia Pantazi, 2022. "Racial and Ethnic Inequalities, Health Disparities and Racism in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic Populism in the EU: Unveiling Anti-Migrant Attitudes, Precarious Living Conditions and Barriers to Integrati," Societies, MDPI, vol. 12(6), pages 1-22, December.
    2. Lucy Fiske & Linda Briskman, 2021. "The Impossibility of Home: Displacement and Border Practices in Times of Crisis," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(10), pages 1-7, October.
    3. Sandro Serpa & Carlos Miguel Ferreira, 2022. "Challenges of Post-COVID-19 for a Sustainably Developed Society," Societies, MDPI, vol. 12(2), pages 1-4, April.

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