Opinion
Opinion posts on visas and international mobility.
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The Ethical Dilemmas Related to Covid-19 Vaccine Passports
By Ugur Altundal and Omer Zarpli. Published in Global Mobility Report 2021/Q2. Vaccine passports have been proposed as a solution that will allow cross-border travel to resume, thereby partially alleviating the negative economic…
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The Impact of Health Security on Travel Freedom
By Ugur Altundal and Omer Zarpli. Published in Henley Passport Index Q2 2020. “In general, governments adopt travel restrictions temporarily, in response to short-term health needs. For example, measures such as social distancing,…
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The Relationship Between Political, Economic, and Travel Freedom
By Ugur Altundal and Omer Zarpli. Published in Global Mobility Report 2020. “Using historic data from the Henley Passport Index and a range of other indices, we have discovered a strongly positive correlation…
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Trends in Travel Freedom: The Effect of Travel Freedom on Economic Growth and Democracy
By Ugur Altundal and Omer Zarpli. Published in Global Citizenship Review. January 9, 2019 "Over the past decade, travel freedom has expanded precipitously thanks to the rising number of bilateral visa-waiver agreements and…
