Open AccessA Cordon Sanitaire at the India-Bangladesh border
Author(s) -
Edward Kieran Boyle,
Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
borders in globalization review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2562-9913
DOI - 10.18357/bigr21202019836
Subject(s) - fence (mathematics) , geography , state (computer science) , dependency (uml) , covid-19 , political science , socioeconomics , economic growth , development economics , economy , sociology , engineering , economics , medicine , disease , structural engineering , systems engineering , algorithm , pathology , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty)
This commentary considers the effects of COVID-19 on the borderland communities of Meghalaya, a hill state in Northeast India. Efforts to fence this border have failed to deter informal exchanges with Bangladeshi neighbours, but the national COVID-19 lockdown looks set to shift locals into relations of dependency on and within the nation’s borders, rather than across them.