Fault Lines in the Globalisation of Migration: Frontline workers as Embodied Constituents of Disjunctive Globalisation

thrown into sharp relief (Steger and James, 2020). The contradictions (and disjunctures) between the dependence of receiving countries on economic migration and the visible tensions associated with migration, and the precarious experiences of migrants at the COVID-19 frontline marked new insecurities in migratory paths and shocks to already insecure work circuits. The fault lines revealed by the COVID-19 crisis identified in this article raise fundamental questions for globalisation and migration scholars and policy makers around the sustainability of the ‘migration/value’ nexus. We advocate an approach that moves away from a reductivist conception of migration as solely legitimised via the generation of economic value, towards a sustainable recovery and future after Covid -19 crises. We argue for a human rights-based approach to migration that fosters mobilities that ensures that individuals outside of it are deemed of value, of public value. We believe this can inform and help set a tenacious framework, that ‘resettles’ the current disjunctures of globalisation, through acknowledging different formations of mobilities through globalization for an inclusive global society. This article is part of the Global Perspectives, Interrogating Global Studies Special Issue, guest edited by Jill Timms and Alison Hulme, as a tribute to Dr Paul Kennedy, an ardent pioneer in the field of Global Studies.