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At the Border of Rights

How North American migration policies endanger women and children

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North American migration policies increasingly prioritise deterrence and border security over humanitarian protection.
Restrictive asylum systems, detention, and border externalisation expose women and children to violence, trafficking, trauma, and insecurity.
These harms are structural consequences of securitised migration governance and reveal contradictions between security priorities and human rights commitments.

By Coline Zozime Delage

28 May 2026 · 14:21 CET· Updated 25 June 2026 · 17:30 CETIssue I

Contemporary migration policies frequently produce the very forms of insecurity they claim to prevent.

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Coline Zozime Delage Coline Zozime Delage is a final-year undergraduate student in Applied Foreign Languages (English–Spanish) with a focus on International Relations at Bordeaux Montaigne University in France. Her academic interests include diplomacy, human rights, peace and political communication. Through research projects, associative engagement and intercultural experience, she seeks to contribute to rigorous analysis and informed public debate on complex international issues.

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Delage, C. Z. (2026). At the Border of Rights. EPIS Insight · Human Rights & Humanitarian Aid.

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