Prof. Dr. Aitor Ibarrola - The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on forced migration
UNIC Lecture Series13 Touko 2020

Prof. Dr. Aitor Ibarrola - The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on forced migration

In the last couple of weeks, I have revisited Susan Sontag's famous essay on the uses of illness/disease as controlling metaphors in the hope that it may raise my students’ consciousness of the ways in which health crises of the kind we are living through may provoke different types of reactions among political leaders, scholars or just common folk. Although, of course, Sontag focused her essay on other types of diseases, the sort of discourses that are emerging around the Covid19 epidemic can be seen to resemble in several ways those used in the past with regard to other so-called "cosmic" illnesses. Sontag raises a cautionary note in particular regarding the moralistic meanings often associated to these metaphors which can mark and stigmatize specific social groups as contributing to the spread of the disease. Needless to say, the existence of feelings of mistrust, prejudice, contempt or even bigotry against those groups in specific societies is likely to boost those (injurious) uses of the metaphors.

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