Palestinian workers, dependent on crossing into Israel for work, have faced new challenges amid COVID19.

From Morocco to the United States, existing physical, social, legal, and economic barriers are compounded by the virus.

Professor Samer Abboud’s Keynote as a part of "Topologies of Security: Critical Security Studies in postcolonial and postsocialist scenes," a workshop organized at the Justus Liebig University Giessen on June 25th and 26th 2020 by Professors Andreas Langenohl, Dr. Philipp Lotholtz, Amina Nolte, and Dr. Andrew Dwyer.

While the COVID19 pandemic has united the world in common concern, it has also exposed fault lines between rich and poor countries and magnified the inequalities in the world system and structures of global power.