A limited defence of public health exit restrictions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9954044 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael J Sullivan (0000-0002-9513-3572, Graduate International Relations, St. Mary's University San Antonio Texas USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Migration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/imig.13103 |
| OpenAlex | W4311348301 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
Exit restrictions are viewed with suspicion in the literature related to migration, citizenship, and human rights. The international human rights project is devoted to defending the minimal proposition that a person should be able to leave their own country, with few exceptions. Public health emergencies constitute one of the few limits on this mobility right in Article 12 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Here, I offer a limited legal and normative defence of pandemic travel restrictions, with a focus on Australia's COVID‐19 exit control measures. I argue that public health emergency exit controls do not constitute a violation of a traveller's mobility rights, so long as they are temporary, narrowly tailored, and proportionate to the health risk posed by the traveller in question. They should be lifted when alternative measures become widely available, such as vaccination and testing requirements
Citizenship · Covenant · Human rights · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Public health · Right to health · Sociology · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Immigration Detention and Human Rights
Strangers in Our Midst
Travel restrictions as a disease control measure
Human Rights, Free Movement, and the Right to Leave in International Law
Open Borders and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Restricting emigration for their protection? Exit controls and the protection of (women) migrant workers
Behind the Berlin Wall
The challenge of ‘Covid-19 free’ Australia
The International Health Regulations, Covid-19, and bordering practices
Can we still call Australia home? The right to return and the legality of Australia’s Covid-19 travel restrictions
Limiting Rights and Freedoms in the Context of Ebola and Other Public Health Emergencies
What Does It Mean to Control Migration? Soviet Mobility Policies in Comparative Perspective
Aliens and Citizens
Democratic Theory and Border Coercion
Mediating Risk through the International Health Regulations and Bio-Political Surveillance
Quarantine and the imagining of the Australian nation
Doctors as migration brokers in the mandatory medical screenings of immigrants to the United States
Citizenship and the Right to Leave
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |