When the World Closed Its Doors: The Covid-19 Tragedy and the Future of Borders

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...