The Covid-19 pandemic has had a significant impact upon both migration and mobility as well as levels of debt and indebtedness. Kavita Datta is a Professor of Development Geography and Director of the Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary University of London. In this seminar, she
defines features of contemporary times as the intersections between these are relatively underexplored. Drawing upon findings from a project, Connecting during Covid: Practices of care, remittance sending and digitalisation among UK migrant communities, this presentation makes three key arguments. First, it unpacks migration as a financial practice highlighting how debt precedes, is produced through, and by, migration and how debts are made and remade through mobility. Second, it explores the socio-economic and emotional precarity that indebted migrants have experienced partly as a consequence of the pandemic. Third, it identifies the consequences of being indebted during a global pandemic on transnational caring practices.

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