How Do National Borders Impact Immigration Policies and Human Rights

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How do national borders impact immigration policies and human rights, and what is the significance of addressing this issue in the context of evolving border geographies?
Introduction
Article 13-2 of the Universal declaration of Human rights clearly posits that, “everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.” Respectively, Article 14-1 states that, “everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” While the two specific declarations acknowledge emigration, the right to immigrant becomes blurred especially with the ever-problematic contemporary immigration policies. It is evidently true that skilled laborer’s traverse borders quite easily, leaving those outside this groups with minimal or zero migration opportunities. While globalization has increased the flow of information, goods, capital, and services, the flow of humans across borders remains majorly problematic (Paasi 213). There are many existing policies put in place by countries to determine who comes in only and not vice versa. Arguably, the immigration limitations in several national borders especially the first world countries, have triggered major human rights challenges that have not yet been acknowledged. Analyzing the issues of immigration policies and humans’ rights through the lens of evolving border geographies, makes it possible to understand its complexities and what it takes to address them in the context of the ever-evolving border geographies.
National Borders and Economic Prosperity
International border migration remains has been a critical subject in the past few centuries. As at 2020, the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) reports that about 281 million people live and work in a country other than the country they were born. This high number now reiterates the critical subject of migration especially since 46% of world migrants and about 86% of asylum seekers and refugees originate from developing nations. Through the 1800 and 1900s, migration was hardly an issue, but in our contemporary society many nations now see immigration as a threat with many nations, particularly the USA and European countries, now teaming up to