Torre Costanza, Storer Elizabeth
London School of Economics, Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa, Pethick - Lawrence House (Tower 3). 3 Clement's Inn, Mobil Court, London WC2A 2AZ, United Kingdom.
J Migr Health. 2023;7:100189. doi: 10.1016/j.jmh.2023.100189. Epub 2023 Apr 20.
While scholars have noted the deeply unequal effects of the pandemic containment, there has been limited attempt to map the socio-political lives of vaccination policies, particularly from the perspective of undocumented persons moving at state margins. This paper explores how undocumented migrants, who were predominantly male travellers attempting to cross Italy's Alpine borders, encountered Covid-19 vaccines and contemporary legislation. Based on ethnographic observations and qualitative interviews with migrants, doctors, and activists at safehouses both on the Italian and French sides of the Alpine border, we trace how mobility centred decisions to accept or reject vaccines were significantly shaped by exclusionary border regimes. We move beyond the exceptional focus of the Covid-19 pandemic to show how centring visions of health connected to viral risk diverted attention from migrants' wider struggles to move to obtain safety. Ultimately, we argue for a recognition of how health crises are not merely unequally experienced, but may result in the reconfiguration of violent governance practices at state borders.
虽然学者们已经注意到疫情防控措施产生的严重不平等影响，但从处于国家边缘地带的无证人员的角度，对疫苗接种政策的社会政治状况进行梳理的尝试却很有限。本文探讨了主要为试图穿越意大利阿尔卑斯山边境的男性旅行者的无证移民，是如何接触到新冠疫苗及当代立法的。基于对阿尔卑斯山边境意大利一侧和法国一侧的移民、医生及避难所活动人士的人种志观察和定性访谈，我们追踪了以流动为中心的接受或拒绝疫苗的决定是如何受到排他性边境制度的显著影响的。我们超越了新冠疫情这一特殊关注点，以表明与病毒风险相关的健康愿景如何转移了人们对移民为获得安全而进行的更广泛迁徙斗争的注意力。最终，我们主张认识到健康危机不仅是不平等地被体验，还可能导致国家边境暴力治理方式的重新配置。
