This article discusses some of the challenges posed by the introduction of COVID-19 certificates as a privileged tool for opening up mobility and access in order to restore a semblance of normality to social life. While at present there is no international consensus either on how – or why – such certificates should be used or on how they should be designed and applied, a growing number of countries have already introduced COVID-19 certificates in one form or another. Yet the scientific community as well as the World Health Organisation (WHO) have expressed caution, noting that such certificates might disproportionately discriminate against people on the basis of race, religion and socioeconomic background, as well as on the basis of age due to the sequencing of the vaccine rollout. Indeed, while the new COVID-19 certificates may appear to promise a magical solution enabling us to free up global mobility and reopen economies, they actually risk creating new borders and new forms of inequality through an exclusionary sorting and profiling mechanism that delimits “safe” from “unsafe” bodies, based on differential access to “immuno-privilege” – but also differential forms of “bio-securitisation”. They also provide an illusion of pandemic safety – assuring citizens that through the “fetish” of the certificate “safe travel” can magically be reinstated. Securing territories and populations has always been, in Foucauldian terms, a matter of “making a division between good and bad circulation and maximizing the good circulation by diminishing the bad”. We can therefore reasonably expect growing contestation, including before courts, around COVID-19 certificates in their different national and international iterations, as their inherently discriminatory nature and other unintended consequences such as those stemming from the use of persuasive – as opposed to the more traditional coercive – governmental power begin to unfold in their performative trajectory.

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证明健康：COVID-19 证书的不平等法律地理

本文讨论了引入 COVID-19 证书作为开放流动性和访问权的特权工具所带来的一些挑战，以恢复社会生活的正常状态。尽管目前对于如何使用或为何使用此类证书或应如何设计和应用此类证书尚未达成国际共识，但越来越多的国家已经以一种或另一种形式引入了 COVID-19 证书。然而，科学界和世界卫生组织 (WHO) 都表示谨慎，指出此类证书可能会因种族、宗教和社会经济背景以及年龄的不同而对人们造成不成比例的歧视。疫苗的推出。确实，尽管新的 COVID-19 证书似乎有望提供一种神奇的解决方案，使我们能够释放全球流动性并重新开放经济，但它们实际上可能会通过将“安全”与“不安全”的机构，基于对“免疫特权”的不同访问——以及不同形式的“生物证券化”。它们还提供了一种流行病安全的错觉——向公民保证，通过“安全旅行”证书的“恋物癖”可以神奇地恢复。用福柯的话说，确保领土和人口一直是“区分好流通和坏流通，通过减少坏流通来最大化好的流通”的问题。因此，我们可以合理地期待越来越多的争议，包括在法庭上，