Restriction of the right to freedom of movement: Migration, pandemic, and the Aegean border regime
Restriction of the right to freedom of movement: Migration, pandemic, and the Aegean border regime

Author(s): Panagiotis Mavroudis
Subject(s): Migration Studies, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Restriction; freedom; movement; Migration, pandemic; Aegean border regime;
Summary/Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic shook medical and healthcare standards in the global north, and recontextualised considerations about human rights tenets in the syndemic of social inequality (Horton, 2020). For racialised poor who already faced the “continental quarantining” of European borders (Achiume, 2019, as cited in Meer, 2022, p. 102) the coronavirus emergency compounded existing challenges of multiple bordering and xenophobic discourse (OHCHR, 2020). This paper aims to trace continuities, intersections, and new challenges of addressing exclusion for racialised migrants by taking the mobility regulation in the recent reception-asylum and pandemic-related legislation in the Greek Aegean border islands as a case study.

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