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This article explores the experiences of professionals who, prompted by the pandemic, returned to their hometowns in Italy while continuing to work remotely, a trend known as 'South-Working'. I explore how the pandemic changed these individuals' usual mobility routines and led them to return home and reconsider life priorities, all while leveraging digital remote work and new mobility strategies. I draw upon ethnographic fieldwork, including online video interviews, observation in social media platforms and visits to co-working spaces across the northern part of Sicily. This article contributes to the anthropology of (im)mobility by exploring the transformative impact of the pandemic and the digital on mobility regimes and the boundaries associated with movement, work and life. It challenges established categories and normative temporalities of (im)mobilities, offering a new perspective on the evolving dynamics of work and mobility in the digital era, and on the transformation of the meaning of 'essential' and 'non-essential' mobilities.
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Critique of Anthropology is dedicated to the development of anthropology as a discipline that subjects social reality to critical analysis. It publishes academic articles and other materials which contribute to an understanding of the determinants of the human condition, structures of social power, and the construction of ideologies in both contemporary and past human societies from a cross-cultural and socially critical standpoint. Non-sectarian, and embracing a diversity of theoretical and political viewpoints, COA is also committed to the principle that anthropologists cannot and should not seek to avoid taking positions on political and social questions.
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