Post by Rufruf Chaudhary

A conversation on the banks of the Spree in Berlin left me thinking about a simple but difficult question: Why do migrants stay if they never feel they fully belong? The answer I heard wasn't identity. It wasn't belonging. It was freedom. In the latest edition of Borderlines, I explore how citizenship is more than a legal status. It is access, protection, agency, and perhaps a form of security that we rarely talk about. The Freedom to Leave asks whether passports are not just documents of nationality, but technologies of security that determine who is free to move and who is not. #Borderlines #Migration #SecurityStudies #Citizenship #HumanSecurity #InternationalRelations