The EU knows responses must be rethought when the spaces of power are reconfigured through crisis environments. In terms of migration, it is possible to observe management initiatives based on border control with a low degree of compliance with current legislation. The effects of difficulties in harmonising regional and national policies lead to problems in human security, which is decisive for an eventual imbalance of forces within the Community political framework. At the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the region's countries mostly and, with the imposition of restrictive measures on the movement of people, the border closure was a measure of sanitary containment. This event set precedents for practices to control migration flow that affected the current commitments, already marked by little efficiency.

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