Open borders and the COVID-19 pandemic
Open borders and the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper considers the implications of COVID for open borders. It notes that while COVID concerns do not directly challenge arguments for open borders, the pandemic has revealed two more general phenomena that are salient for such arguments. The first concerns the increasing unmooring of legal borders from physical spaces and the interaction of surveillance and identification technologies with this process. The second addresses the issue of interdependency and the potentially negative implications of open borders if not underpinned by a global basic structure.
Borders, Coronavirus, COVID, Democracy, Global, Open society
152-159
Owen, David
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1 December 2020
Owen, David
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Abstract
This paper considers the implications of COVID for open borders. It notes that while COVID concerns do not directly challenge arguments for open borders, the pandemic has revealed two more general phenomena that are salient for such arguments. The first concerns the increasing unmooring of legal borders from physical spaces and the interaction of surveillance and identification technologies with this process. The second addresses the issue of interdependency and the potentially negative implications of open borders if not underpinned by a global basic structure.
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Accepted/In Press date: 1 December 2020
Published date: 1 December 2020
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© Berghahn Books 2020
Keywords:
Borders, Coronavirus, COVID, Democracy, Global, Open society
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Local EPrints ID: 455095
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/455095
ISSN: 2332-8894
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