Talk 4: Sandro Mezzadra

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Logistical rationality of migration management: Forced human mobility and immobility in the age of pandemic

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The CHCI Global Humanities Institute 2020 has implemented different webinar series on the topic of “Migration, Logistics and Unequal Citizens in the Global context” which this tripartite structure, “migration, logistics and unequal citizens,” are the pressing question that our institute would like to address. In the series, speakers tried to address the geopolitical and historical conditions behind the practice of the lockdown during COVID-19.

Chasing back to the history, the state of the migrant workers are used to be neighbouring countries in the same kingdom during the C commerce period, now become excluded and separated as “enemies” or “slaves”. Since ‘the citizenship could be differentiated in a post-colonial state-building process’,As one of the speakers, Liu, suggested, it is necessary to push forward for new concepts or reconceptualize the common sense of citizenship, to protect the people who live and work there and they should enjoy equal access to essential space. Furthermore, she reminds us that we need to expose the colonial power and theoretical produce behind the lockdown and the civil war mentality. Last but not least, the notion of common needs to be reinvented with the alternative logistics for the common.

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