border control
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measures taken to regulate the movement of goods and people across borders
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Vinony's link graph records 1,359 inbound references to border control, and connects out to tariff, biometric passport and controlled airspace.
It sits within the topics Border control, Borders and Export and import control.
Vinony links it to 31 Wikipedia language editions.
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- government=border_control
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Encyclopedic overview
Border control comprises measures taken by governments to monitor and regulate the movement of people, animals, and goods across land, air, and maritime borders. While border control is typically associated with international borders, it also encompasses controls imposed on internal borders within a single state.
Border control measures serve a variety of purposes, ranging from enforcing customs, sanitary and phytosanitary, or biosecurity regulations to restricting migration. While some borders (including most states' internal borders and international borders within the Schengen Area) are open and completely unguarded, others (including the vast majority of borders between countries as well as some internal borders) are subject to some degree of control and may be crossed legally only at designated checkpoints. Border controls in the 21st century are tightly intertwined with intricate systems of travel documents, visas, and increasingly complex policies that vary between countries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “border control” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.