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Closed borders, travel bans and halted immigration: 5 ways COVID-19 changed how – and where – people move around the world

  • Written by Mary A. Shiraef, Ph.D. Student in Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Closed borders, travel bans and halted immigration: 5 ways COVID-19 changed how – and where – people move around the worldMost countries closed their borders, at least partially, at some point last year. But the world is starting to reopenCOVID Border Accountability Project, CC BY-SA

Trips canceled: 2.93 billion. International border closures: 1,299. Lives interrupted: Countless.

After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, most countries in the...

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