Moments In Flow

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  • The White Crow as a Temporary Permit Holder in Their Own Country

    Finland’s post-1990s social settlement produced a specific kind of outsider: the citizen who holds the passport but not the membership. The white crow is not a foreigner. But the mechanism that keeps the foreigner on a temporary permit—provisional inclusion, conditional belonging, permanent assessment—operates on the white crow with the same effect. The difference is that…

  • THE SCE AS A PORTABLE EMPLOYMENT BRIDGE

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    EUROPEAN COOPERATIVE SOCIETY, INCOME-REQUIREMENT ARBITRAGE, AND REMOTE SERVICE ACROSS BORDERS Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: EU Member States INTRODUCTION The Societas Cooperativa Europaea (SCE) —the European Cooperative Society—is the EU’s supranational legal form for cooperatives. Established by Council Regulation (EC) No 1435/2003 and operational since 2006, the SCE was…

  • COOPERATIVES, EU INC., AND THE PORTABLE EMPLOYMENT FRONTIER

    WORKER-OWNED ENTERPRISE, SUPRANATIONAL CORPORATE FORMS, AND THE REMOTE WORK PATHWAY TO RESIDENCE Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: EU Member States, with Mondragon and Genossenschaften as Templates INTRODUCTION The previous post diagnosed the blind spot of the immigration system: the foreign working spouse of a citizen, treated as a dependent…

  • THE BIG BLIND SPOT: THE FOREIGN WORKING SPOUSE OF A CITIZEN

    DEPENDENT STATUS, PROFESSIONAL DISPLACEMENT, AND THE ASSUMPTION OF ADULT INCAPACITY Classification: Socio-Legal Blog Post | Series: Total Institutional Adsorption | Jurisdictions: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, EU INTRODUCTION The previous posts in this series examined the employer-sponsored visa as a choke point, the portable visa as anti-capture technology, and the startup city as the spatial…

  • The Coming Global Cycle of Ebola? unless we notice.

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    I. The Epidemiological Frame: A Door Closing on the Delayed Echo Every major Ebola outbreak leaves behind more than grief. It leaves behind a reservoir—a cohort of survivors who carry the virus in immunologically privileged sites for months or years, unaware that they remain infectious. The 2013–2016 West Africa epidemic, which produced over 28,000 cases,…