http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20220330-011155-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/os5-borders-of-equality/ Borders of Equality - or: What Barriers and Pushbacks Reveal about our Understanding of the Equality of all Human Beings Towfigh, Emanuel V. eng 2022-03-15 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Borders Human Dignity Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Legally sanctioned, robust border security today marks a fundamental inequality in the world; it is a reflex and sign of unequally distributed resources and at the same time perpetuates this inequality. Nevertheless, borders – as dramatically demonstrated these days in light of the terrible war in Ukraine – also have an inherent protective dimension. Border regimes can therefore only be interpreted and legitimized as legal instruments of order in a society of the free and the equal; their function as barriers cannot be justified in terms of fundamental considerations of justice and equality.