border controls
Crossing inspection stations
Border controls are measures governments use to regulate who and what crosses national boundaries.
These include passport checks, visa requirements, customs inspections, and immigration enforcement.
The term often appears in political debates about migration policy: The country tightened border controls after the crisis.
Border controls were relaxed within the European Union.
- passport checkIdentity verification at borders
- immigration officerEntry point official
- visa requirementsRules for foreign entry
- crossing pointDesignated passage between areas
- tariffsTaxes on imports
surveillance systems · customs regulations · residency permits · fingerprint · customs declarations · sovereignty · biometric screening · customs duties · refugee quotas · no-fly lists · travel restrictions · duty-free allowances · Brexit · intelligence sharing · stamp · queue · patrol · documents
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- Soviet EraUSSR, Soviet Union, Soviet rule, CCCP, Eastern Bloc
- East GermanyStasi, GDR, DDR, Berlin Wall, East Germany
- pandemic responsecontact tracing, quarantine laws, social distancing, lockdown, mask mandate
- GDR policiesplanned economy, state ownership, Berlin Wall, travel restrictions, collectivization
- GDR Rightsconstitutional rights, socialist principles, constitutional guarantees, legal framework, state security
border controlsfree movement
Unrestricted ability to travel
open borders · freedom of movement · visa-free travel · free passage · right to roam
border controlsborderlessness
Lack of demarcating lines
global citizenship · cosmopolitanism · transnationalism · internationalism
border controlsEuropean integration
Unifying the continent politically