Transnazionalismi in tempo di pandemia: il caso dei romeni in Europa

The mobility and immobility of intraEuropean migrants during the pandemic can be interpreted thanks to the concepts of "mobility regimes" and "selective transnationalism". The social and political crisis generated by COVID19 turns out to be a testing ground for these categories. The author analyses the case of Romanian migrants in Europe, and in particular in Italy. He demonstrates how the trajectories of mobility have been changed or reconfigured, taking into account power relations, consolidated representations and social inequalities, both in the country of origin and in the countries of arrival. The detailed analysis of migratory paths within a family group shed light on the great diversity in the effects of the crisis, in particular with reference to one of the most evident ones, social distancing, in all its forms.