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Pandemics, Public Health, and the Regulation of Borders: Lessons from COVID-19

Pandemics, Public Health, and the Regulation of Borders: Lessons from COVID-19

Author: Colleen M. Flood; Y.Y. Brandon Chen; Raywat Deonandan; Sam Halabi; Sophie Thériault
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032494784
Published In: February 2024
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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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 subnational, examples, the book thematises 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 policy makers and public health planners at national and subnational levels.

I. INTRODUCTION

1. Introduction

Colleen M. Flood, Y.Y. Brandon Chen, Raywat Deonandan, Sam Halabi, and Sophie Thériault, Adam R. Houston

II. HISTORIES, CONTESTS, AND COMMUNICATION OF BORDERS AS PUBLIC HEALTH TOOLS

2. The Essential Art of Communication about Balance in Border Closures

Raywat Deonandan

3. The Wolf and the Sheepfold: Borders, Containment, and Contested Discourses of Public Health in the Great Influenza Pandemic Era

Esyllt Jones

4. Bordering and the Fallacy of Disease Directionality: Ebola, SARS-CoV-2 and Africa’s Confidence Deficit with Global Public Health

Chidi Oguamanam

5. Towards Reimagining the IHR Article 43 on Travel Restrictions

Lisa Forman & Roojin Habibi, Adam R. Houston

III. BORDER AND MOBILITY RESTRICTIONS AS PUBLIC HEALTH TOOLS WITHIN REGIONAL AND NATIONAL BOUNDARIES

6. Management of the European Union’s (Internal and External) Borders during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tamara Hervey, Alexandra Fyfe & Vincent Delhomme

7. Public Health Evidence for Provincial Border Management

Brenda J. Wilson

8. First Nations, COVID-19, and the Implications of Spatial Restrictions in a Settler Colonial Context

Eva Ottawa, Florence Robert & Sophie Thériault

Adam R. Houston

IV. BORDER MEASURES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

9. Border Controls as Part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Siouxsie Wiles

10. Borders within Borders within Borders: A Legitimate Approach to Controlling the First Two Years of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in Australia

Stephen Duckett

11. The United States Response to COVID-19: A Patchwork of Border Regulations

Katherine Ginsbach

12. Brazilian Discriminatory Border Control Policy Based on ‘Health Restrictions’ During COVID-19 Pandemic

Fernando Aith

Adam R. Houston

V. BORDER CONTROLS, MIGRANTS, AND REFUGEES

13. Pandemic Pathways to Permanent Residence

Audrey Mackli

14. Spouses of the Pandemic: Data, Racism, and Mental Health

Wei William (“Will”) Tao, Adam R. Houston

VI. VACCINE PASSPORTS: CIVIL LIBERTIES, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND PUBLIC HEALTH

15. Vaccine Refusals and Freedom of Religion: A Moving Target in a Pandemic Age

Carissma Mathen

16. A Brief History of the Science of Vaccine Passports and What the Future Holds

Kumanan Wilson

17. Rights Discourse and Canadian Debate Over Vaccine Passports

Bryan Thomas

18. Mobility Restrictions, Human Rights, and the Legal Test of Proportionality

Jeff King, Adam R. Houston

VII. VACCINE PASSPORTS: PRIVACY CLAIMS & TECHNOLOGY FIXES AND FAILURES

19. Pandemic-Fighting Technologies? Lessons from COVID-19 for the Pandemics of the Future

Vivek Krishnamurthy & Myka Kollmann

20. Verification Theatre at Borders and in Pockets

Michael Veale, Adam R. Houston

VIII. BOUNDED VULNERABILITIES: LONG-TERM CARE, PRISONS, PSYCHIATRIC CARE INSTITUTIONS, AND HOMELESSNESS

21. The Paradox of Protecting the Vulnerable: An Analysis of the Canadian Public Discourse on Older Adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Martine Lagacé, Caroline D. Bergeron, Tracey O’Sullivan, Samantha Oostlander, Pascale Dangoisse, Amélie Doucet & Philippe Rodrigues-Rouleau

22. Of Governmental Priorities, Human Rights, and Social Control: Prison Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Adelina Iftene

23. Extending the Boundaries of the Psychiatric Hospital: The Use and Misuse of Psychiatric Coercion during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Quebec and Ontario

Emmanuelle Bernheim

24. Punishing Mobility: Curfews and Homelessness in Quebec during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Véronique Fortin & Céline Bellot

Adam R. Houston

IX. ACCESS TO SERVICES, CARE, AND MEDICAL NECESSITIES

25. Bodies Across Borders: A History of Cross-Border Travel for Abortion Services in Poland and Canada

Christabelle Sethna & Krystyna Dzwonkowska-Godula

26. Borders Drawn Across Bodies: Advocating for Maternal Health in Times of Crisis

Sarah J. Lazin

27. Keeping Border Restrictions Light Enough to Travel: A Humanitarian Perspective on Canada’s Border Control Measures During COVID-19

Jason Nickerson & Joseph Belliveau

28. "Where You Live Shouldn’t Determine Whether You Live": Canada and the Line Between Rhetoric and Reality in Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access