Contestable Demographic Reasoning Regarding Labour Mobility and Migration

Abstract

Contestable Demographic Reasoning Regarding Labour Mobility and MigrationThe essay provides a review of contestable demographic reasoning applied in relation to migration and mobility, in which the notion of the national population as a closed and bounded system still persists. Although free movement of people has been enshrined as one of the fundamental principles of the European Union, their mobility within it remains selective and curtailed in various ways. Drawing on selected studies of labour mobility and migration within the European Union, the authors argue that labour mobility and migration policies continue to categorise people as either more or less entitled to move across the European Union's internal borders.

The Slovenian Community in Croatia during the Covid-19 Pandemic

“…The various forms of mobility are seen as more or less justified, depending on factors such as ethnicity, possession of specific skills in the labour market, gender, etc. (Knežević Hočevar & Cukut Krilić 2019). This is evident, as Mégret points out, first in the fact that the Covid-19 pandemic renewed a "romantic emphasis" on nationality.…”