Events and Outputs

13-15 July 2023

This workshop will explore ways of developing migration-mobility studies as social critique. more

This workshop at the Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest, in co-operation with MPI, is tied to the forthcoming MoLab theme of “Reproduction Migration”.

In this collective essay, MoLab contributors and other researchers examine mobility and immobility during the pandemic as lenses onto the ways that routinised state power reacts to acute uncertainties, as well as how these reactions impact politics and societies. more

This article suggests that mobility regulation during the pandemic indicates how relations are changing between government and citizens, not only in China, but across the world. more

This article is part of the outcomes o the workshop "The re-enchantment of culture and flexible citizenship in a hardening world", co-organized by The Research Centre for Social Sciences (Centre for Excellence, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest) and MoLab, November 2021. more

This article reflects on how the perspective of the "redistribution of mobility" helps to understand the relation between remote work, the pandemic, and inequality. more

This Chinese article suggests that changes in the patterns and meanings of mobilities, of both people and goods, explain why the Chinese government reacted differently to COVID-19 and to SARS (2003).

This is the English version of the Chinese article above, introduced and translated by David Ownby “[I]n the face of concentrated mobility, half-measures are largely impossible. I find Xiang’s perspective unique in Chinese discussions of the virus, as well as a subtle call to reflect on the perils of development at all costs." (Ownby)

This article explores connections between the securitization of mobilities, mobile livelihoods, and emerging mobility businesses during the COVID pandemic in China.