Sovereignty, Normalisation and the Unknown: Emergency Governance and Mobility in Central and Eastern Europe in Times of Geopolitical Upheaval
Journal: Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny
Year: 2025

Reflections on the implications of governments’ preferences for emergency solutions typically focus around narratives of democratic erosion and the logic of the “state of exception”. The ambition of this article is to advance these reflections by examining emergency governance not only as a logic of power, but also as a set of political practices experienced by societies living under conditions of sustained emergency. It also seeks to move beyond the typical Western model of sovereignty. This ar