closed borders
No foreigners allowed
Closed borders describes a national policy restricting or prohibiting entry by foreigners—the opposite of open borders.
The term appears in debates over immigration, refugees, and national security: The candidate campaigned on closed borders.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries implemented temporarily closed borders to limit disease spread.
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
- refugee crisisMass forced migration situation
- wallsVertical enclosing structures
- checkpointsInspection stations along routes
- visasPassport endorsements for travel
passports · green card · work permit · nationalism · sovereignty · national security · refugees · customs · port of entry · barriers · restrictions · deportation · asylum · travel ban · patrol · fences · protectionism · isolationism
- protectionismprotectionism, trade barriers, tariffs, import quotas, trade restrictions
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- migrationmigration, immigrants, refugees, immigration, emigration
- xenophobiaxenophobia, nativism, anti-immigrant, anti-immigration, bigotry
- Hoxha Albaniabunkers, Tirana
closed bordersopen borders
Unregulated international passage
free movement · freedom of movement · borderless · free passage · visa-free travel
closed bordersopen-door policy
Unrestricted access principle
cosmopolitanism · globalism · internationalism · amnesty · multiculturalism
closed bordersfree trade
Unrestricted international exchange
free trade zones · open markets · economic integration · customs union · single market
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