Editing Border (section)

=== Open borders ===
[[File:Wagah border ceremony2.jpg|thumb|right|Indian and Pakistan border officers at the India-Pakistan border]]

An [[open border]] is the deregulation and or lack of regulation on the movement of persons between nations and jurisdictions. This definition does not apply to trade or movement between privately owned land areas.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/open-border |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503193452/http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/open-border |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 May 2016 |title=open border Definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary |date=3 May 2016 |access-date=27 July 2018}}</ref> Most nations have open borders for travel within their nation of travel, though more authoritarian states may limit the freedom of internal movement of its citizens, as [[Propiska in the Soviet Union|for example]] in the former USSR. However, only a handful of nations have deregulated open borders with other nations, an example of this being European countries under the [[Schengen Agreement]] or the open [[Belarus-Russia border]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/schengen_en |title=Schengen Area - Migration and Home Affairs – European Commission |last=Anonymous |date=6 December 2016 |website=Migration and Home Affairs – [[European Commission]] |language=en |access-date=27 July 2018 |archive-date=12 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812074419/https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/borders-and-visas/schengen_en |url-status=live }}</ref> Open borders used to be very common amongst all nations, however this became less common after the [[First World War]], which led to the regulation of open borders, making them less common and no longer feasible for most [[industrialized nations]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/papers/Colemanmigration.pdf |title=International Union for the Scientific Study of Population : XXIV General Population Conference, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil : Plenary Debate no 4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140801080227/http://www.populationenvironmentresearch.org/papers/Colemanmigration.pdf |archive-date=1 August 2014 |website=Population Environment Research |date=24 August 2001 |access-date=26 July 2018}}</ref> An example of Open orders include the [[Schengen Area]] where 29 European nations mutually abolished their border control.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Schengen Area – European Commission |url=https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen-borders-and-visa/schengen-area_en |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=home-affairs.ec.europa.eu |language=en}}</ref>