Ali is part of someone else's war – a boy who has left his home, school, friends and family behind, crossing border after border.
"Talks between the EU and Turkey on 'migration management' risk putting the rights of refugees a distant second behind border control measures designed to prevent refugees from reaching the EU," Andrew Gardner, Turkey researcher for Amnesty International said on Saturday.
As we discuss immigration reform, the profit-motive behind border security is perhaps one of the biggest ignored issues.
China's and Russia's interventionism and attachment to state capitalism are difficult to reconcile with the "behind-the-border" liberalisation America and Europe are seeking.
This takes the WTO into a whole new series of behind-the-border issues where national preferences come much more strongly into conflict with multilateral rule-setting.
By any definition, the TPP is a big deal.The "21st-century" aspects of TPP are "behind-the-border" issues, such as intellectual-property protection, environmental and labour standards, the privileges of state-owned enterprises and government-procurement practices.
Washington is negotiating a separate free-trade pact focused on Asia, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which, if successful, would form the template for rules on "behind-the-border barriers" to trade that are crucial for the smooth functioning of integrated global supply chains, Mr. Baldwin said.
"We're moving away from the old issues of tariffs and customs, and into behind-the-border issues of intellectual property and investor-state dispute settlement issues, and what they're about is setting the rules for the future," Hearn said.
Modern trade agreements need to reduce friction and establish realistic rules regarding supply chains, including behind-the-border barriers in member economies, to produce real economic benefits (Green and Goodman 2016).
