key: cord-337796-6qs6m7h7
authors: Della Rosa, Asia; Goldstein, Asher
title: What does COVID‐19 distract us from? A migration studies perspective on the inequities of attention
date: 2020-05-18
journal: Soc Anthropol
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12899
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doc_id: 337796
cord_uid: 6qs6m7h7

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Second, we see this double movement operating most perniciously externally. In our spaces of exclusion from wealth and rights, now absent from public discourse, it is in the camps where COVID-19 will be most deadly (Oishi and Alam 2020) , and yet migrants themselves are already being constructed as potential public health risks. These spaces of exclusion, exposure and condemnation to suffering this disease have no public health infrastructure nor hope of practising 'social distancing' (Médecins sans Frontières 2020).

These people are those whose suffering we long ago decided to distance ourselves from socially. This is about more than Moria, Matamoros, Kutupalong, Al-Shati or Kakuma. The silent consent of criminal negligence that is COVID-19 in these places is a crime against humanity in the making. There is time to heed the calls for evacuation in the face of this looming humanitarian catastrophe. Against ascendant and narrow nationalisms, we must respond with a mass mobilisation of care and the evacuation of these spaces of exception cum graveyards.

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