COVID-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism

Nehring, Daniel; Hu, Yang

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COVID-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism

Daniel Nehring

, Yang Hu

Sociology, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 183 - 190

Swansea University Author: Daniel Nehring

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In this intervention, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has reconfigured transnational mobilities, connections, and solidarities, which reveals the fragility of transnationalism predicated on cosmopolitan ethics but rooted in nation-level politics. We show that as the pandemic severely disrupted...

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COVID-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism

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