Pandemics, public health, and the regulation of borders : : lessons from Covid-19 / / edited by Colleen M. Flood, Y.Y. Brandon Chen, Raywat Deonandan, Sam Halabi, and Sophie Thériault.

• TeilnehmendeR: Flood, Colleen M.,
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

The essential art of communication about balance in border closures / Raywat Deonandan -- The wolf and the sheepfold : borders, containment, and contested discourses of public health in the great influenza pandemic era / Esyllt Jones -- Bordering and the fallacy of disease directionality : ebola, SARS-CoV-2, and Africa's confidence deficit with global public health / Chidi Oguamanam -- Towards reimagining the IHR Article 43 on travel restrictions / Lisa Forman & Roojin Habibi -- Management of the European Union's (internal and external) borders during the COVID-19 pandemic / Tamara Hervey, Alexandra Fyfe & Vincent Delhomme -- Public health vidence for provincial border management / Brenda J. Wilson -- First nations, COVID-19, and the implications of spatial restrictions in a settler colonial context / Eva Ottawa, Florence Robert & Sophie Thériault -- Border controls as part of aotearoa New Zealand's response to the COVID-19 pandemic / Siouxsie Wiles -- Borders within borders within borders : a legitimate approach to controlling the first two years of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in Australia / Stephen Duckett -- The United States response to COVID-19 : a patchwork of border regulations / Katherine Ginsbach -- Brazilian discriminatory border control policy based on 'health restrictions' during COVID-19 pandemic / Fernando Aith -- Pandemic pathways to permanent residence / Audrey Macklin -- Spouses of the pandemic : data, racism, and mental health / Wei William ("Will") Tao -- Vaccine refusals and freedom of religion : a moving target in a pandemic age / Carissma Mathen -- A brief history of the science of vaccine passports and what the future holds / Kumanan Wilson -- Rights discourse and Canadian debate over vaccine passports / Bryan Thomas -- Mobility restrictions, human rights, and the legal test of proportionality / Jeff King -- Pandemic-fighting technologies? lessons from COVID-19 for the pandemics of the future / Vivek Krishnamurthy & Myka Kollmann -- Verification theatre at borders and in pockets / Michael Veale -- 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 -- Of governmental priorities, human rights, and social control : prison responses to the COVID-19 pandemic / Adelina Iftene -- 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 -- Punishing mobility : curfews and homelessness in Quebec during the COVID-19 pandemic / Véronique Fortin & Céline Bellot -- Bodies across borders : a history of cross-border travel for abortion services in Poland and Canada / Christabelle Sethna & Krystyna Dzwonkowska-Godula -- Borders drawn across bodies : advocating for maternal health in times of crisis / Sarah J. Lazin -- Keeping border restrictions light enough to travel : a humanitarian perspective on Canada's border control measures during COVID-19 / Jason Nickerson & Joseph Belliveau -- "Where you live shouldn't determine whether you live" : Canada and the line between rhetoric and reality in global COVID-19 vaccine access / Adam R. Houston -- Cross-border mobility of persons and goods during pandemics : exposing normative duality in international law / Pedro A. Villarreal -- Modeling approaches to borders, geography, and infectious diseases / David Fisman -- Advancing a risk-based approach to border management during public health emergencies of international concern / Kelley Lee, Julianne Piper & Jennifer Fang -- Global health law : overcoming the shortfall in human resources / Tim G. Evans & Priyanka Saksena -- Conceptual and tangible borders under a revised international health regulations or new international pandemic agreement / Sam Halab.