Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.18357/bigr21202019890
E. Kauffer
The dynamics at the Mexican–Guatemalan border drastically changed from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper deals with these transformations and tries to evidence a new assemblage that has resulted. The rationale that prevailed until the beginning of 2020 between Mexico and Guatemala was a south-north selective open border derived from migratory controls applied to travelers according to their citizenship and their US or Canadian migratory status. From March until October, 2020 the pandemic gave birth to a new north-south rationale organized around a selective closure: the Guatemalan border was totally closed except to Guatemalans that were allowed to return to their country. On the Mexican side, communitarian, municipal, and local boundaries were established to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.18357/bigr21202019857
A. Bustamante, Francisco Sánchez
COVID-19’s pandemic declaration worsened the Táchira–Norte de Santander border as the epicenter of the second largest forced migratory crisis in the world due to the Complex Humanitarian Emergency in Venezuela. COVID-19 changed the direction of the flow from emigration to returned migration, at a border that had already moved from open to semi-open, and since the pandemic, became closed to all formal movements.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.18357/bigr21202019757
J. Agulló
During the COVID-19 lockdown, at night on the stretch of the Parana River that goes from the Ponte Internacional da Amizade (International Friendship Bridge) south to the geographic trifinium, where the river splits and three borders meet, the sound of outboard motors and gunfire has intensified. Seven-and-a-half miles (twelve kilometres) of border space separate Brazil from Paraguay in South America’s hinterland. Since 1965, the main transversal gates of a long-shared border of 848 miles (1,364 kilometres) are located on both sides of the Amizade Bridge. In 2020, during the pandemic, work on a second bridge, started the previous year, was intensified. This essay focuses on the study of the border space between both infrastructures: the old and the new.
在新冠肺炎疫情封锁期间,从国际友谊桥(Ponte Internacional da Amizade)向南延伸至地理分界线(trifinium)的巴拉那河(Parana River)夜间,舷外发动机声和枪声更加强烈。7.5英里(12公里)的边境线将巴西与南美洲腹地的巴拉圭分隔开来。自1965年以来,一条长达848英里(1364公里)的长期共享边界的主要横向大门位于阿米扎德桥的两侧。在2020年大流行期间,前一年开始的第二座桥梁的建设工作得到了加强。本文主要研究新旧两种基础设施之间的边界空间。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.18357/bigr21202019881
Walid Habbas
The function of the West Bank–Israeli separation barrier, designed to segregate Palestinians away from Israeli territory, was subverted by the COVID-19 crisis. For the first time, the barrier locked West Bank Palestinians inside Israel. For a two-month period, construction workers from the West Bank were sequestered at work sites in Israel to reduce movement of people between the territories while also minimizing economic losses. This turn of events illustrates the ad hoc economic interests underlying Israeli security policy toward the West Bank.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.18357/bigr21202019861
Willie Eselebor
The induced border closure at Seme Border, Nigeria, on March 23, 2020 is just one among other closures carried out from 1984-2020. The closure brings to the fore issues of safety and collective vulnerability of the border communities and the existing coping mechanisms for addressing their fears. In the absence of constructive engagement with the vulnerable, the people often resorted to self-help by creating alternate routes (bush paths and waterways) thereby rendering the securitisation of border security (Border Drill) management ineffectual. In decision-making and for a successful implementation, it is important to allow for a buy-in from those affected by such policy.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.18357/bigr21202019966
Benjamin Perrier
Essential author on the “frontier”, Paul de Geouffre de La Pradelle is known for his original legal theory. The author distinguishes between “delimitation” (which is a boundary-line) and “frontier” (which is a zone of cooperation). He also distinguishes what he calls the “national frontier” (“object of study of domestic public law”) and the “international frontier” (“object of study of international public and private law”).
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.18357/bigr21202019893
M. Pflaum
This is a film review of the recent film by Mati Diop, "Atlantics."
这是马蒂·迪奥普最近的电影《大西洋》的影评。
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.18357/bigr21202019856
K. Collins
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the lives of those living in the United States–Mexico border. From the Imperial Valley–Mexicali region, along the California– Baja California border, we find two interesting cases in public management that were impacted by the border population—medical care and informal importation of consumer goods. A lack of federal policy and guidance to improve the quality of life for people in the region leads us to rethink the role of governments and governance in the border region.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-15DOI: 10.18357/bigr21202019862
David Goeury
La frontière Ceuta-Bab Sebta est un point de tension récurrent entre les autorités marocaines et espagnoles. Cette enclave espagnole en Afrique est devenue l’un des points d’entrée des migrations clandestines en Europe mais aussi d’un commerce atypique au Maroc. La crise du SARS-CoV-2 a constitué une opportunité pour les autorités marocaines pour mettre fin au commerce atypique aux dépens des transfrontaliers marocains.
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