Nearly 5 billion people are not yet fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
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Portugal has the best vaccination rate of any major country, while Burundi only received its first few hundred doses in October 2021. Explore the data in this interactive graph.
The last freedom
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As borders slowly reopen, immigrants and expats won’t soon forget that our freedom of movement is conditional, our lifestyle only tolerated
039 | Anne Lekas Miller | The US reopens to foreign visitors*
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037 | Felix Marquardt | Manifesto for a new nomadism
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People who cross borders can make a better world. But first we need to leave La La Land.
New travel rules: Brits can go play around the world... but the world is not welcome here
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Only those vaccinated by the NHS will be spared quarantine in England. Changes once again fall short for transnational families.
Is travel from amber list countries dangerous? A look at the data.
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Are travel restrictions commensurate with the public health risk? Or are they a mildly xenophobic bit of security theatre?
Yes, Europeans are being turned away at UK borders. Not all Europeans though.
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Four out of five EU nationals refused entry to the United Kingdom since Brexit are from Eastern Europe.
030 | Leah Cowan | Should we abolish borders?
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The border isn’t a line on the periphery of the country, says Leah Cowan, author of Border Nation. It is a fog that covers all of society and can descend upon you at any time if you’re an immigrant or racialized as “other.” It wasn’t always thus