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When the World Closed Its Doors

The Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders

by Edward Alden
Laurie Trautman
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A detailed exploration of the most sweeping government border closures in human history during the Covid-19 pandemic and the implications for the future of global mobility. More people traveled internationally in 2019 than in any year in history. After COVID began its rapid spread throughout the world, though, international travel plummeted, and nations across the world hardened their borders. For the first time, governments took the same tools that have been used against less privileged migrants and asylum seekers and turned them on citizens from countries that had long enjoyed relatively unfettered travel—and sometimes on their own citizens. In When the World Closed Its Doors, Edward Alden and Laurie Trautman tell the story of how nearly every country in the world shut its borders to respond to an external threat and explain how this global shock to the system ended up transforming state border policies around the world. They detail the consequences of the COVID border restrictions—couples separated for years, children blocked from reuniting with their parents, container ship workers moving essential goods trapped at sea, pregnant citizens barred from returning home—and explain why governments used their harshest containment measures on those coming from outside. Throughout, Alden and Trautman focus on human stories to show the multiple impacts that states' increasing restrictiveness has had—economic, demographic, social, and political. And the fallout continues: governments left unchecked will continue to restrict borders with little regard to the collateral damage and disruption they cause. A sweeping overview of the re-bordering of the world, both during and after 2020, this synthetic, wide-angle view of a singular shock to the international systems of travel and migration highlights why citizens need better protections and governments more robust guardrails.

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    December 10, 2024

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    • Library Journal

      December 1, 2024

      This work explores how nearly every country closed its borders during the COVID pandemic, complicating life for residents on both sides of the boundaries. After beginning with an exploration of the Canada/United States borders, the book delves into definitions and examples of border control, what the right to travel means, the definition of "essential" as it pertains to citizens, workers, and travelers; and the complicated status of refugees and asylum seekers. There are examples from the Norway/Sweden line, the U.S./Mexico border, India, and East Asia, where South Korea and Vietnam emerge as examples of how to adeptly handle a public health crisis. There's a lot of precise detail to share, making the constant chronology and policy changes read like a laundry list of government activities. Authors Alden (Council on Foreign Relations) and Trautman (Border Policy Research Inst., Western Washington Univ.) close with suggestions for the future, including strengthening international cooperation, focusing the use of emergency powers, and developing better crisis management, although they remain skeptical that this level of international cooperation will occur before the next crisis. VERDICT Best for serious public policy aficionados.--Tina Panik

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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