Pandemics, Public Health, and the Regulation of Borders

Lessons from COVID-19

Colleen M. Flood, Y.Y. Brandon Chen, Raywat Deonandan , Sam Halabi

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Routledge
15 February 2024

Social impact of disasters; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Sociology; Politics & government; Medical sociology

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.

Edited by: Colleen M. Flood, Y.Y. Brandon Chen, Raywat Deonandan, Sam Halabi, Sophie Thériault
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 960g
ISBN: 9781032494746
ISBN 10: 1032494743
Pages: 402
Publication Date: 15 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Colleen M. Flood is Dean of the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, Canada. Y.Y. Brandon Chen is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law (Common Law Section), Canada. Raywat Deonandan is Epidemiologist and Associate Professor with the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Sam Halabi is Professor at the Georgetown University School of Health and Co-Director of the Center for Transformational Health Law at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Sophie Thériault is Full Professor in the Faculty of Law (Civil Law Section) at the University of Ottawa, Canada.