Author: Sélim Clerc

COVID-19 and the Search for Continuity in the Swiss Asylum Regime

14.12.2023 , in ((Towards a Novel Mobility Regime)) , ((Keine Kommentare))

How are public health and asylum governance connected? During the COVID-19 pandemic, migration authorities took measures to maintain a certain continuity in asylum governance in Switzerland. By studying the pandemic’s impact on the asylum regime, we not only see the importance of uninterrupted movement to it, but we also realize ...

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Towards a Novel Mobility Regime? The Legacies of the COVID-19 Pandemic Regarding the Governance of Human Movement

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Following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, authorities deployed a myriad of „exceptional“ measures that severely impacted the possibilities of human movement. States restricted, controlled and monitored people on the move at various social and spatial scales. The emerging „regime of (im)mobility“ turned out to be highly differential and ...

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