SOCI 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Coronavirus, Border Control
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Lecture 12 - freedom of movement in the time of co. News report talks about a filipino migrant worker. She works in hong kong as a software engineer. She returned to the philippines for vacation and attempted to go back to hong kong, but there was a temporary ban between china, Hong kong and japan and was in relation to the death of a chinese man. The ban has been lifted largely because of social media and the work the facebook group has been doing. Travel ban was described as unusual, as the virus spread several countries have imposed bans on travellers from certain countries. The philippines travel ban is unusual because it prevents filipino citizens from living the philippines because the democracy and bill of rights guarantees individuals movement. We can conceptualized immobility infrastructures and institutions characterized by the state to impede people"s movements. Philippines is the model of labour migration workers.
