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Lockdown, porous borders and digital activism at the southeastern fringes of EU

Although the closing of borders is historically often employed sanitary strategy¬, en masse border closures in response to COVID-19 for many came as a surprise. First of all, almost automatic border closings seemed incongruent with the hypermobile, globalized world of the 21st century. Moreover, they were in sharp dissonance with predominant and globally promoted WHO doctrine “One health, one world” focused on the close cooperation between states and their abstaining from closing borders. Nevertheless, in a dramatic, but in fact, rarely questioned turn, states worldwide almost unanimously responded to the appearance of a new coronavirus by closing borders on a scale unprecedented in recent history. The national order of things once again became the predominant order. In parallel, borders become defense lines for the virus, despite the virus having already been spreading inside the states’ territories. In this context, borderless supranational areas such as the EU and Schengen Area in Europe became crisscrossed by member state borders. Should it be said that bordering was in constant flux, conducted at the margins and sometimes outside of established national legal systems, which added new layers of insecurities in already disrupted every-day living realities of refugees and other migrants in the time of pandemics.

COVID-19, ireegualrized migration, borders

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