Participants:
Department of Politics and Society (SSH), CALDISS (SSH) & CLAAUDIA
Purpose:
The COVID-19 pandemic and the politics of governing the “health crisis” have not only led to buttressing the authority of the state apparatus over the organization of communal life but also to the emergence of new forms of precarious mobility and immobility. COVID-19 devastated economies and the entrenchment of “hard borders” have spurred a paradoxical phenomenon in which immobilization has been interlaced with complex forms of displacement.
The purpose of the project is to set up a digital archive on "pandemic borderscapes", defined as highly conflictual and precarious environments in which individuals on the move have experienced entrapment, or displacement pressures to move onward.
The archive will consist primarily of official tweets from Twitter news account. The material in the archive is manually annotated according to relevant key topics. The topics are then used experimentally to construct a text classifier for identifying future tweets relevant for these key topics.