Introduction: Migration Struggles, Colonial Legacies, and Pandemic Shifts

Joyce C. H. Liu is Chair Professor of the Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies and Director of the International Center for Cultural Studies, and the International Program of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Her research focuses on geopolitics, biopolitics, border politics, internal coloniality, epistemic decolonization, and artistic interventions. She is the author of six books and nine coedited volumes. Currently, she is leading two ongoing joint research projects: Conflict, Justice, Decolonization: Critical Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (awarded by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan) (2018–22), and Migration, Logistics, and Unequal Citizens in the Global Context (awarded by CHCI-Mellon Foundation) (2019–21).

Brett Neilson is a professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. With Sandro Mezzadra, he is author of Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (2013) and The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (2019).