ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a brief description on re-racialisation of migrants and the 'refugee crisis' during COVID-19. The world in 2020 is radically different from the year before. A major sociopolitical transformation due to an 'exogeneous' factor has begun. COVID-19 has brought the celebrated 'world on the move' to a standstill. We could imagine neither the scale nor the depth of the panic and global state of emergency against what might be termed "miasmic deviants". We are in the middle of accentuated processes of exclusion, racialisation, marginalisation and expulsion of migrants, refugees and 'the damned of the earth'. New borders and bordering processes generated, as old ones are invigorated. These dynamics have rekindled 'old' and 'new' forces in Europe and the globe, bringing about the collapse of consensus in politics and generating a 'politics of hate'. Dissensus reigns and migration and asylum are at the heart of these processes. The chapter primarily focuses on these processes in the eastern Mediterranean. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)