As we note in this paper, the realisation that national borders were no longer, if indeed they ever were, ‘secure’, was highly significant since borders act(ed) both to define the boundaries of a nation and demarcate its lines of quarantine, for it is often at the border where human and non-human bodies and other potentially dangerous ‘vessels’ are monitored, surveyed, and perhaps excluded.
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Of plagues, planes and politics: Controlling the global spread of infectious diseases by air.
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