Political Borders Are Not Natural Orders - The COVID-19 Pandemic in Frankfurt on the Main and Its Refugees

Homayun Alam
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Homayun Alam: Dr., Independent Researcher, from Frankfurt on the Main, Germany

European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Articles, 2021, vol. 7

Abstract: The overall aim of this paper will be to stick to the previous researchers to get valid and impartial data from the most international city of Germany: Frankfurt on the Main. However, this research paper will try to provide answers by comparing war situations (object) where curfews are at daily basis impact on lives of people, who become gradually refugees (subject). In the recent years many refugees found their way to the global city of Frankfurt and its region of Rhine-Main. In these days if talking about the situation of the visible shutdown, lockdown and the strictly forbidden laws for an overall betterment of life, refugees have a tendency to explain to the native people about their crisis-laden past: “Resilience for Survival†. Their recent past in the war-torn countries of Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq in West-Asia, Libya in Africa or the many wars in the Balkans in the 1990s in Europe, are a case in point. Given that as a matter of fact, when individuals are leading conversations about the outbreak to the recent lockdown, especially, fugitives try to explain to the ordinary dweller of Frankfurt through what life-threatening circumstances they experienced. This described social encounter despite the imposed social distancing is the proof how our glocalized planet (global and local) effects the everyday life and every human being lives in each and every corner of the confined nation-states.

Keywords: transnationality; refugees; migration; everyday life; Frankfurt on the Main (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.26417/961ynp98j

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