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A Cordon Sanitaire at the India-Bangladesh border

Author(s) -

Edward 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.

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