Structural vulnerabilities and (im)mobilities amidst the Covid-19 pandemic : people on the move along the Balkan Route, posted and agricultural workers

Cukut Krilić, Sanja (author), Zavratnik, Simona (author)

The global Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated the vulnerable situation of people on the move and other migrant groups at a time when the usual spatial routes were disrupted and mobility was restricted for much of the world’s population. However, while mobility was halted for some groups of migrants (e.g., in reception centres), migrant workers faced somewhat contradictory treatment by different governments, reflecting the ‘need’ for migrant workers in certain sectors of the economy. The article provides an analysis of such paradoxes in European migration and mobility policies. It focuses on the situation of people on the move on the so-called ‘Balkan route’ and two categories of temporary workers in the European Union: posted workers and agricultural workers. Its main argument is that, despite hierarchies of different mobility practices, both groups remained largely marginalised and such inequalities made some populations structurally vulnerable in different ways.

• Language: English
• Keywords: epidemics, COVID-19, migration, posted workers, agriculture, refugees, Balkan Route
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 15-31
• Numbering: Vol. 12, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-145596
• UDC: 314.15(497):616.98-036.21:578.834
• ISSN on article: 2300-1682
• DOI: 10.54667/ceemr.2023.04
• COBISS.SI-ID: 150091779
• Publication date in RUL: 24.04.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Central and Eastern European migration review
• Shortened title: Cent. East. Eur. Migr. Review
• Publisher: Centre of Migration Research
• ISSN: 2300-1682
• COBISS.SI-ID: 528538137

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: epidemije, COVID-19, migracije, napoteni delavci, kmetijstvo, begunci, balkanska pot