Tag Archives: Migration
Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: Border spectacles and COVID-19: from invisibility to forced encampment of people on the move in Serbia
Marta Stojić Mitrović
The COVID-19 pandemic was wind at the back for the transformation of European nation-states into laboratories for amplification of surveillance and movement control. In reaction to the pandemic, authorities produced a whole set of social, spatial and temporal borders for governing movement and interactions. The social categories aimed at differentiating ‘the dangerous’ (persons, places, times)Read more
Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: The cruel optimism of migration and non-spectacular borders
Polina Manolova
If ‘hopeful dreams’ are the ‘stuff’ of which migration is made, as Samuli Schielke (2020: xiii) has recently remarked, then we need to ask what are the imaginary constructs that transpire in subjective aspirations towards the ‘good life’ and what is the price that one incurs for pursuing these through migration. As imaginaries, contrary toRead more
Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: Borders and the Production of Ill-Being. (An Invitation for) a Global Conversation
Claire Bullen, Manuel Dieterich, Polina Manolova, Damián Omar Martínez and Boris Nieswand
In the summer of 2020, the conveners of the International Forum on Wellbeing and Subjectivity across the Global South invited us1 to prepare a Panel to reflect critically on the notion of ‘well-being’, the set of aspirations for a ‘good life’ that it foregrounds, and the specific political and ideological models that it draws upon forRead more