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COVID-19, Nation-States and Fragile Transnationalism

Daniel Nehring Orcid Logo, Yang Hu Orcid Logo

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

Swansea University Author: Daniel Nehring Orcid Logo

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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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ISSN: 0038-0385 1469-8684
Published: SAGE Publications 2022
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