Morbid mobilities

Tsvetelina Hristova

Morbid mobilities

Tsvetelina Hristova

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

Epidemics spread by parasitizing on the already established flows of the mobility of people, while new crises parasite on crises that have settled to become the normality. In the weeks after COVID-19 reached the EU, the epidemic has accelerated the conjuncture of existing modes of exploitation, extraction, and exclusion. Kim Moody points out in a recent piece that the link between the spread of COVID-19 and transnational supply chains might be a lot more significant than what would be immediately apparent from epidemiological models. This invisibilized dependency between the spread of the virus and the mobility of capital and labour is only one way in which the current rapidly developing COVID-19 crisis is not just a health emergency but much more than this, it is a problem of labour. Labour, and in particular migrant labour, has become the central subject of this crisis - monitored, contained, and stirred into “essential” mobilities.

Original language	English
Article number	32
Pages (from-to)	126-135
Number of pages	10
Journal	Identities
Volume	17
Issue number	1
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Morbid mobilities

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