Borders, Logistics and Unequal Lives

We begin with the issue of "borders, logistics, and unequal lives” in the time of COVID-19 as an introduction to the series of events we plan to initiate in the coming months. In this series, Sandro Mezzadra, Ranabir Samaddar, Brett Neilson, and Joyce C.H. Liu will offer their reflections and thoughts on the research lines we need to engage concerning the precarity of migrant lives in the pandemic and the operation of logistics behind the flow of capital. The forum provided by this podcast aims to bring together all GHI participants, speakers, and researchers from the partner institutes to exchange their experiences, views, and research outcomes with critical outlooks to aspects of border politics, logistics, and rising inequalities from a global perspective. This series will also open to the public so that we can generate more discussions for future research.

The term ‘unequal’ provides a vast array of opinions and impressions. The deleterious effects of these inequalities are more dominant among vulnerable communities, for instance, marginalized migrant categories, segregated refugees, slum dwellers, and other economically penurious groups. However, ‘unequal’ circumstances are not only results of economic unevenness but also caused by policies of modern nation-states. The tumultuous transformations in border controls and territorial supremacies have created the imperative for us to reanalyze the questions revolving around these keywords.

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