Reorganization of borders, migrant workers, and the coloniality of power.

Autor(en)

Ayse Caglar

Abstrakt

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries introduced measures to restrict mobility, both cross-border and internal. Nevertheless, people employed in certain sectors and designated as ‘essential workers’ were allowed to bypass these mobility restrictions. In this article, I take essential workers’ seemingly paradoxical assemblage of rights and value as a fruitful entry point to scrutinize both the tensions present in citizenship arrangements governing mobility and people and the contradictions of today’s labor and migration politics. Expanding on these contradictions, I argue that what appear to be ambiguities of citizenship–ambiguities which became more visible during the COVID pandemic–can actually be seen as contradictions inherent to citizenship itself. These ambiguities and contradictions reveal the coloniality in today’s nation states and their citizenship regimes. In short, we can relate them to colonial forms of power producing governable subjects and regulating mobility closely connected to processes of accumulation.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Journal

Citizenship Studies

Band

26

Seiten

401-410

Anzahl der Seiten

10

ISSN

1362-1025

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091220

Publikationsdatum

2022

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504017 Kulturanthropologie, 504021 Migrationsforschung

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Geography, Planning and Development, Political Science and International Relations

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/reorganization-of-borders-migrant-workers-and-the-coloniality-of-power(e1be6dd5-d0cb-4818-8031-7f937c6024a5).html