New Vulnerabilities for Migrants and Refugees in State Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19
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 pol...
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-427ebc12e3f846f098a0052fbbe6cd9c2023-11-22T15:17:28ZengMDPI AGSocial Sciences2076-07602021-09-0110934210.3390/socsci10090342New Vulnerabilities for Migrants and Refugees in State Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19Claudia Tazreiter0Simon Metcalfe1Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, SwedenResearch Assistant, Forced Migration Research Network, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, AustraliaThis 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.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/9/342migrantsrefugeeshuman rightshumanitarianismCOVID-19racial capitalism |
| spellingShingle | Claudia Tazreiter Simon Metcalfe New Vulnerabilities for Migrants and Refugees in State Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19 Social Sciences migrants refugees human rights humanitarianism COVID-19 racial capitalism |
| title | New Vulnerabilities for Migrants and Refugees in State Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19 |
| title_full | New Vulnerabilities for Migrants and Refugees in State Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | New Vulnerabilities for Migrants and Refugees in State Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | New Vulnerabilities for Migrants and Refugees in State Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19 |
| title_short | New Vulnerabilities for Migrants and Refugees in State Responses to the Global Pandemic, COVID-19 |
| title_sort | new vulnerabilities for migrants and refugees in state responses to the global pandemic covid 19 |
| topic | migrants refugees human rights humanitarianism COVID-19 racial capitalism |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/9/342 |
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