'Cold European civilisation hasn't arrived here yet' – negotiations within the Cypriot regime of (im)mobility. Issue 2 (4th March 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fischer, Leandros
• Is Part Of: Mobilities. Volume 16:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 224
• Page End: 235
• Publication Date: 2021-03-04
• Subjects: Regimes of mobility -- Cyprus -- mobile labour -- differential inclusion -- states of exception; Transportation -- Periodicals; 300.5
• DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2021.1885841
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1745-0101

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article explores the mobility/labour nexus in the Republic of Cyprus, a borderland region between Europe and the Middle East and a 'state of exception' since its creation. Contrary to perceptions of Cypriot migration policies as rogue aberrations from an idealised European norm, the article contends that zones of legal ambiguity display their own filtering logic towards migrant labour, offering different kinds of constraints and opportunities to migrants.