This is a radical challenge. The West is certainly going to lose if its politicians, academics and civil servants continue to take for granted a superiority in tatters.
While most forms of data management of populations are problematic, the COVID-19 pandemic requires reconsidering the relationship between data and invisible populations.
“They are invisible (as opposed to we are blind), they live on the margins (as opposed to we’ve pushed them to the periphery) and they are illegal (as opposed to our law is unjust).”
To prevent international relations from sliding back to a “state of anarchy”, international organizations have a duty to help countries work together, and parliaments must play a central role.
