[Commlist] CFP (SI) - ‘Politics, Perils and Privileges: Immobilities in the Time of Global Pandemics’

*‘Politics, Perils and Privileges: Immobilities in the Time of Global 
Pandemics’*

When the COVID-19 global pandemic struck in early 2020, governments 
around the world reacted by closing international and national state 
borders, banning or restricting international and interstate travel, and 
resorting to enforced lockdowns and curfews. The economic and social 
impacts of these sudden restrictions in movements have been devastating 
with the lived experiences of everyone impacted. The employed became 
unemployed, industries whose entire business models are dependent on 
human interactions such as tourism, hospitality and entertainment 
collapsed, supply chains were disrupted, remote working and studying 
became the norm, families were separated from each other and 
professional and education opportunities were lost.

People around the world frustrated by the impact the pandemic has had on 
them, and by the systemic and new inequalities that emerged, voiced 
their anger through street protests and in the online space with the 
pandemic fuelling both extreme right wing and left wing fervour. The 
rapid move to the online space to conduct almost every kind of human 
activity meant a complete reliance on the digital resulting in new kinds 
of inequalities and challenges. The rise of the digital in the time of 
forced immobilities has also created completely new opportunities born 
out of necessity. While mobility was once the life blood for human and 
individual necessity, progress and advancement, immobility has shown 
itself to create perils and privileges never really realised. For 
example, workers not required to be ‘on site’ are able to set up home 
offices to work from home.

This special issue thus asks the questions:

  * How has immobility affected the once mobile?
  * What old and new inequalities have resulted as consequences of
    restricted or banned human movements?
  * What political movements are being created because of forced 
immobility?
  * How have communities responded to forced immobility and to the once
    mobile?
  * What are the impacts of immobility on migrants and migration?
  * What are the relationships between the digital and immobility?

*Timeline*

Abstracts due: *September 2021*

Full papers due: *December 2021*

Please get in touch with the /Transitions /editors 
((catherine.gomes /at/ rmit.edu.au); (y.peidong /at/ gmail.com); 
(michielbaas /at/ yahoo.com)) if you have any questions in the meantime.

For more detail, see: 
https://www.intellectbooks.com/transitions-journal-of-transient-migration


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