Borders resurgent: towards a post-Covid-19 global border regime?

Radil, Steven M.; Pinos, Jaume Castan; Ptak, Thomas

doi:10.1080/13562576.2020.1773254

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“…And that, albeit partially and selectively, national policy debates were embedded in transnationally shared notions of educational equity. Our findings confirmed the literature on transnational educational governance – pointing to attempts especially by non-state actors to engage in ‘governing by numbers’ building on metrics and data collected transnationally (Grek, 2020), but we could also clearly remark the resurgence of the nation state as a main policy actor during the crisis (Radil et al, 2021). This coexistence of different transnational and national orders is connected to the different spatio-temporalities (Lingard, 2021) in which state and non-state actors operated during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

Section: Concluding Discussion: Policy Spaces and Temporalitiessupporting

confidence: 88%

Inequities in first education policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A comparative analysis in four Central and East European countries

Manea¹,

Safta-Zecheria

Neumann

et al. 2021

European Educational Research Journal

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The historically high inequities in the education systems of Central and East-European countries have been further exacerbated in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using critical frame analysis, we compared the education policy debates in Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Republic of Moldova during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic with a particular focus on inequities. We discuss the policy frames proposed and utilized by governmental and non-governmental actors to understand their roles played in articulating policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis, and highlight the specificities and commonalities of the political language within and across the national borders of the four countries. We conclude with our findings on the dynamics and structure of the policy debate between state and non-state actors in times of crisis with a particular focus on policy spaces and policy temporalities. Two ways of constructing spatio-temporalities co-exist: one is national, state and public health centric and focuses on governing ‘through’ the crisis; and the other is focused on long term planning while constructing the crisis as an opportunity for decisive intervention towards more equitable education.

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Section: Concluding Discussion: Policy Spaces and Temporalitiessupporting

confidence: 88%

Inequities in first education policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A comparative analysis in four Central and East European countries

Manea¹,

Safta-Zecheria

Neumann

et al. 2021

European Educational Research Journal

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“…This is line with recent studies that have highlighted their negative socioeconomic impacts, such as their threat to border integration in Europe, revival of territorial conflicts, xenophobia, and the often enduring negative emotional experiences of those who encounter them. 42 – 44 …”

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Did border closures slow SARS-CoV-2?

Friesen

Janabi²,

Beling³

et al. 2022

Sci Rep

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Despite the economic, social, and humanitarian costs of border closures, more than 1000 new international border closures were introduced in response to the 2020–2021 pandemic by nearly every country in the world. The objective of this study was to examine whether these border closures reduced the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Prior to 2020, the impacts of border closures on disease spread were largely unknown, and their use as a pandemic policy was advised against by international organizations. We tested whether they were helpful in reducing spread by using matching techniques on our hand-coded COVID Border Accountability Project (COBAP) Team database of international closures, converted to a time-series cross-sectional data format. We controlled for national-level internal movement restrictions (domestic lockdowns) using the Oxford COVID-19 Government Response Tracker (OxCGRT) time-series data. We found no evidence in favor of international border closures, whereas we found a strong association between national-level lockdowns and a reduced spread of SARS-CoV-2 cases. More research must be done to evaluate the byproduct effects of closures versus lockdowns as well as the efficacy of other preventative measures introduced at international borders.

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“…Also, territorial borders cannot contain the impacts of wildfires, chemical pollution, ozone depletion, and most decidedly pandemics. States have responded by propping up their borders and emphasizing their boundaries (Radil, Castan Pinos, and Ptak 2020). Border walls, surveillance and other mechanisms of insulation all speak to this "border orientation" (Kenwick and Simmons 2020).…”

Section: Re-calibration Of the Border Studies Framework: Toward An Approximation Of Post-globalization Bordersmentioning

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“…Finally, and more practically, border studies need to be in tune with rapidly evolving regimes of border policy worldwidein the European Union and with its neighbors, in China and its engagements with the rest of Asia, in the global south, in Polar regions, in North America, and even in the seemingly isolated Antipodes. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the immediate adjustment of border policies worldwide (Radil, Castan Pinos, and Ptak 2020). Border studies specialists have responded with numerous surveys, research projects, re-articulations of research, and rapidly published articles to address the situation, and try to understand the consequences.…”

Section: Re-calibration Of the Border Studies Framework: Toward An Approximation Of Post-globalization Bordersmentioning

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New Directions at the Post-Globalization Border

Konrad

2021

Journal of Borderlands Studies

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A framework for thinking about borders in post-globalization scaffolds insights of emerging theory exemplary of prevailing inbetweenness of the border world. Epistemological advances frame dissensus, power, belongingness, borderscapes and aterritoriality as ridges of knowledge above the collected and connected lore of border experience, yet this knowledge remains topographic and incomplete for understanding interstitial components of borders and bordering. At best, linked approaches employing multiple perspectives, engaging with borderlands, portraying borderscapes, and articulating agency and mobility have set the stage for recalibration of borders in globalization, and approximation of post-globalization borders. In a post-humanistic era, in which humans encountered limitations of nature and sparred with natural laws, states propped up borders and emphasized boundaries. The "border turn" is reactionary, and antithetical, a time when we need to be mindful of the branded border and anxious of our belongingness both within and beyond borders. New directions at the border are epitomized by the articles in this special issue: controlling "blue" (maritime) versus "green" (land) borders, border ethics, China's energized borders, borders as magnets of activism and spectacle, seemingly distinct borders in dialogue, border approaches of effective temporality, and the re-engagement of borders and policy.

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Borders resurgent: towards a post-Covid-19 global border regime?

Cited by 58 publications

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Inequities in first education policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A comparative analysis in four Central and East European countries

Inequities in first education policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis: A comparative analysis in four Central and East European countries

Did border closures slow SARS-CoV-2?

New Directions at the Post-Globalization Border

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