ABSTRACT
This book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic has engendered a new and challenging environment in which borders drawn around people, places, and social structures have hardened and new ones have emerged.
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, borders closed or became unwelcoming at the international, national, sub-national, and local levels. Debate persists as to whether those countries and territories that tightly managed their borders, like New Zealand, Australia, or Hong Kong, got it ‘right’ compared to those that did not. Without doubt, a majority of those who suffered and died throughout the pandemic have been those from vulnerable populations. Yet on the other hand, efforts taken to manage the spread of the disease, such as through border management, have also disproportionately affected those who are most vulnerable. How then is the right balance to be struck, acknowledging, too, the economic and other imperatives that may dissuade governments from taking public health steps? This book considers how international organizations, countries, and institutions within those countries should conceive of, and manage, borders as the world continues to struggle with COVID-19 and prepares for the next pandemic. Engaging a range of international, and sub-national, examples, the book thematizes the main issues at stake in the control and management of borders in the interests of public health.
This book will be of considerable interest to academics in the fields of health law, anthropology, economics, history, medicine, public health, and political science, as well as policymakers and public health planners at national and sub-national levels.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|12 pages
Introduction
part II|50 pages
Histories, Contests, and Communication of Borders as Public Health Tools
chapter 3|10 pages
The Wolf and the Sheepfold
chapter 4|11 pages
Bordering and the Fallacy of Disease Directionality
part III|37 pages
Border and Mobility Restrictions as Public Health Tools within Regional and National Boundaries
chapter 6|14 pages
Management of the European Union's (Internal and External) Borders during the COVID-19 Pandemic
chapter 8|11 pages
First Nations Jurisdiction, COVID-19, and the Implications of Spatial Restrictions in a Settler Colonial Context
part IV|53 pages
Border Measures in Comparative Perspective
chapter 9|13 pages
Border Controls as Part of Aotearoa New Zealand's Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
chapter 10|13 pages
Borders within Borders within Borders
chapter 12|12 pages
Brazilian Discriminatory Border Control Policy Based on “Health Restrictions” during COVID-19 Pandemic
part V|25 pages
Border Controls, Migrants, and Refugees
part VI|48 pages
Vaccine Passports
part VII|23 pages
Vaccine Passports
chapter 19|9 pages
Pandemic-Fighting Technologies? Lessons from COVID-19 for the Pandemics of the Future
part VIII|37 pages
Bounded Vulnerabilities
chapter 21|9 pages
The Paradox of Protecting the Vulnerable
chapter 22|9 pages
Of Governmental Priorities, Human Rights, and Social Control
chapter 23|8 pages
Extending the Boundaries of the Psychiatric Hospital
chapter 24|9 pages
Punishing Mobility
part IX|48 pages
Access to Services, Care, and Medical Necessities
chapter 25|14 pages
Bodies across Borders
chapter 27|9 pages
Keeping Border Restrictions Light Enough to Travel
chapter 28|11 pages
“Where You Live Shouldn't Determine Whether You Live”
part X|60 pages
Borders, Boundaries, and the Future of Global Health Law