MPI Evaluates Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Mobility and Border Management, and Draws Lessons for Future Public-Health Crises

WASHINGTON, DC — Travel restrictions have become integral tools within the global public-health crisis response playbook, but governments have failed to internalize the lessons on mobility and border management from the COVID-19 pandemic. In face of waning political interest in COVID-19, new research from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) Task Force on Mobility and Borders highlights the need for a fuller postmortem, ahead of the next public-health crisis.