Editing Separation barrier (section)

{{Short description|Type of wall separating peoples, administrative units or cultures}}
{{for|the type of barrier separating oncoming traffic on motorways|traffic barrier}}
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[[File:Berlinermauer.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Berlin Wall]] divided [[Berlin]] from 1961 until 1989, and was demolished between 1990 and 1992.]]
A '''separation barrier''' or '''separation wall''' is a [[Barricade|barrier]], [[wall]] or [[fence]], constructed to limit the movement of people across a certain line or [[border]], or to [[ethnic segregation|separate peoples]] or cultures.<ref>"The fence along the Mexican-U.S. border is just one of many barriers proposed or constructed around the world to keep people and cultures separated. Learn more about them below."[https://www.pbs.org/now/shows/432/security-walls.html]</ref> A separation barrier that runs along an [[international border|internationally recognized border]] is known as a [[border barrier]].{{citation needed|date=November 2015}}

David Henley opines in ''[[The Guardian]]'' that separation barriers are being built at a record-rate around the world along borders and do not only surround dictatorships or pariah states. In 2014, The ''[[Washington Post]]'' listed notable 14 separation walls as of 2011, indicating that the total concurrent number of walls and barriers which [[border barrier|separate countries]] and territories is 45.<ref name=wp>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/11/11/these-14-walls-continue-to-separate-the-world/|title=These 14 walls continue to separate the world|first=Rick|last=Noack|date=11 November 2014|access-date=21 April 2018|work=The Washington Post}}</ref>

The term "separation barrier" has been applied to structures erected in [[Peace Lines|Belfast]], [[Homs]], the [[West Bank barrier|West Bank]], [[São Paulo]], [[United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus|Cyprus]], and along the Greece-Turkey border and the [[Mexico–United States barrier|Mexico-United States border]]. In 2016, Julia Sonnevend listed in her book ''Stories Without Borders: The Berlin Wall and the Making of a Global Iconic Event'' the concurrent separation barriers of Sharm el-Sheikh (Egypt), Limbang border ([[Brunei]]), the Kazakh-Uzbekistan barrier, Indian border fence with [[Bangladesh]], United States separation barrier with Mexico, Saudi Arabian border fence with Iraq and Hungary's fence with Serbia.<ref name=sonnevend/> Several erected separation barriers are no longer active or in place, including the [[Berlin Wall]], the [[Maginot Line]] and some barrier sections in Jerusalem.<ref name=henley>David Henley, [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/19/walls-barrier-belfast-west-b-ank Walls: an illusion of security from Berlin to the West Bank], ''[[The Guardian]]'', November 19, 2013.</ref>