Tag Archives: People on the move
Borders and the Production of Ill-Being: Temporal zones of ill-being
Elena Fontanari
‘Freedom!’, exclaims Ben during an interview conducted in Berlin in April 2019, ‘I desire only freedom: I want to choose where to live, which kind of job I can do. I want to move out from Berlin, visit my friends, my family. You know that feeling of being imprisoned? I feel exactly like this,Read more
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