border crossings
Where countries meet
Border crossings are places where people pass from one country into another—checkpoints on international boundaries where travelers present documents and may be inspected.
The term also refers to the act itself: Illegal border crossings increased last year.
A border crossing can be routine or fraught, depending on one's citizenship, documentation, and the political climate between nations.
- checkpointInspection station on route
- no-man's-landUnclaimed disputed territory
- razor wireBladed security fencing
- visa applicationRequest for travel authorization
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
passport control · frontier · asylum · coyote · customs declaration · transnationalism · smuggling · human trafficking · refugee camps · moral dilemmas · port of entry · asylum seekers · safe passage · displacement · demarcation line · neutral zone · migration routes · liminality
- border terms
- global linksdiplomatic missions, consulates, trade blocs, defense pacts, foreign investment
- Eastern EuropePoland, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- bordersboundary, national borders, boundary line, international borders, boundary lines
border crossingsdomestic travel
Trips within one's nation
staying put · internal migration · domestic tourism · interstate travel
border crossingsimmobility
Lack of motion
staying home · staying put · deportation · sedentariness · rootedness