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A Terrible Great Idea? COVID-19 ?Vaccination Passports? in the Spotlight
Working Paper No. 153 The Centre on Migration, Policy & Society University of Oxford (2021)
28 Pages Posted: 11 Mar 2021 Last revised: 15 Mar 2021
Oskar Josef Gstrein
University of Groningen - Campus Frysl?n; Europa-Institut, Saarland University
Dimitry Kochenov
CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest; Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford; CEU Department of Legal Studies, Vienna
Andrej Zwitter
Campus Frysl?n
Date Written: March 10, 2021
Abstract
This article looks at central opportunities and drawbacks of the ?passportization? approach to governing the current health emergency. It showcases the complexity of the ?vaccination passports? idea, the technological and organisational difficulties expected during implementation, as well as its regrettable appeal. We provide a comprehensive overview on the ongoing discussion with analysis of arguments relating to the ethical, social and legal perspective. We submit that vaccination passports will not become the main tool in the fight with the COVID-19 crisis and are unlikely to play a positive role in the mitigation of its impact. There is no clear and straightforward connection to safety and security, while their rapid introduction might have similar consequences to opening Pandora?s box of discrimination and stigmatization.
Keywords: COVID-19, Vaccination passport, inocculation, discrimination, immunisation, emergency
Suggested Citation:
Gstrein, Oskar Josef and Kochenov, Dimitry and Zwitter, Andrej, A Terrible Great Idea? COVID-19 ?Vaccination Passports? in the Spotlight (March 10, 2021). Working Paper No. 153 The Centre on Migration, Policy & Society University of Oxford (2021), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3802154 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3802154
A Terrible Great Idea? COVID-19 ?Vaccination Passports? in the Spotlight
Working Paper No. 153 The Centre on Migration, Policy & Society University of Oxford (2021)
28 Pages Posted: 11 Mar 2021 Last revised: 15 Mar 2021
Oskar Josef Gstrein
University of Groningen - Campus Frysl?n; Europa-Institut, Saarland University
Dimitry Kochenov
CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest; Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford; CEU Department of Legal Studies, Vienna
Andrej Zwitter
Campus Frysl?n
Date Written: March 10, 2021
Abstract
This article looks at central opportunities and drawbacks of the ?passportization? approach to governing the current health emergency. It showcases the complexity of the ?vaccination passports? idea, the technological and organisational difficulties expected during implementation, as well as its regrettable appeal. We provide a comprehensive overview on the ongoing discussion with analysis of arguments relating to the ethical, social and legal perspective. We submit that vaccination passports will not become the main tool in the fight with the COVID-19 crisis and are unlikely to play a positive role in the mitigation of its impact. There is no clear and straightforward connection to safety and security, while their rapid introduction might have similar consequences to opening Pandora?s box of discrimination and stigmatization.
Keywords: COVID-19, Vaccination passport, inocculation, discrimination, immunisation, emergency
Suggested Citation:
Gstrein, Oskar Josef and Kochenov, Dimitry and Zwitter, Andrej, A Terrible Great Idea? COVID-19 ?Vaccination Passports? in the Spotlight (March 10, 2021). Working Paper No. 153 The Centre on Migration, Policy & Society University of Oxford (2021), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3802154 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3802154