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BALMANT EMERIQUE, Lilian Márcia. Human Mobility and COVID-19: Human Rights Violations resulting from the Closure of National Borders in Brazil. Foro [online]. 2022, n.37, pp.9-32. ISSN 2631-2484.  https://doi.org/10.32719/26312484.2022.37.1.

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a series of restrictive measures for human mobility worldwide to contain the spread of the virus, however many of them are unreasonable or disproportionate for the intended purposes of public health or violate human rights provisions. This article deals with the question of how emergency responses to contain a health crisis, by means of measures restricting the entry of foreigners into a country, can violate the human rights of persons in mobility, having as context of analysis the Brazilian case. The article discusses the debate on the securitization of borders in the context of the pandemic. The methodology used consists of the critical analysis of the all ministerial ordinances (administrative ordinances) issued by the federal government in 2020 on temporary restrictions of foreign entry into Brazil during the COVID-pandemic19, criticising its provisions that violate the human rights of people in mobility, who are outside the standards established in health and human rights regulations.

Palabras clave : mobility; foreigners; entry restrictions into Brazil; human rights; COVID-19; securitization; borders; violations.

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