Our experts participate as coordinators and leading investigators for the the London School of Economics funded study "Mobile Citizenship, States of Exception and (non)Border Regimes in post- COVID-19 Cyprus". The study aims to analyse the contradictory consequences of pandemic-related restrictions to mobility rights: on the one hand the emergence and establishment of states of exception and on the other, the intensification of new (and old) forms of solidarity aiming to counter those restrictions. Examining public discourse that justifies (or contests) the rebordered reality, the project engages with the different actors that produce it. Being aware that some actors (especially asylum-seekers and migrants) have been fully absent from public debate, this study will seek to include those who speak and those who are silenced when states of exception are established. The research seeks to relate how states of exception in the form of border regimes have been utilized to justify, legitimize or contest restrictions within and between communities and between citizens and non-citizens in Cyprus during the COVID-19 pandemic.