The contemporary international society and the new coronavirus pandemic:

legal aspects of borders closure

Abstract

Like all other aspects of contemporary society, the international society has going through huge transformations with the globalization. This phenomenon modifies the ways of relationship between actors and subjects of International Law, transcending the borders of national states. In the face of these processes, basic concepts of International Law begin to perceive new reliefs, exposing a need for cooperation and elaboration of common politics in a perspective firstly regional and gradually global. Nevertheless, crisis situations such as that caused by the coronavirus can mitigate this tendency, reallocating States in a place of isolation, as well as permitting new violations to human’s rights. Therefore, this article intends to analyze legal questions that involve the topic, searching for understand if practices carried out by the subjects of International Law as measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) are in line with the tendency for international cooperation that until then had been developing in the international scene. Furthermore, it seeks to discuss about the perspective of respect for human rights, especially in the context of migratory flows in Brazil. Thereunto, is used a qualitative and exploratory research, developed through a bibliographic investigation, by which it is intended to expose the actual key moment in world history, being essential that States seek joint solutions to face, not only the pandemic, but of all the new complexities that arise with the globalized international society.