Viral bodies: racialised and gendered logics in the securitisation of migration during COVID-19 in Italy

The discourse and practices of Polish migration policy during the COVID-19 pandemic – economisation as a form of emergency governance

“…In the context of the spread of COVID-19, the logic of securitisation may have been strengthened by essentialising and generalising narratives about certain ethnic groups regarded as more likely to transmit the virus. According to Pacciardi (2023) from the beginning of pandemic, the mobility of the Jaroszewicz et al Comparative Migration Studies (2024) 12:29 travellers from global South was seen as more problematic and potentially more dangerous than that of passengers from global North, based on gendered and racialised understanding of the threat. In sum, states 'construct' different categories of migrants through a combination of economisation and securitisation in line with an overarching logic of utilitarianism.…”