The gendered costs of anti-refugee policies like Title 42 need to be acknowledged and addressed.


Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University
The gendered costs of anti-refugee policies like Title 42 need to be acknowledged and addressed.

Increased and more violent border policing does not work. It is time to abolish it.
![An asylum seeker sits on a hill outside the perimeter of the overcrowded refugee camp at Vathy on the eastern Aegean island of Samos, Greece, on February 23, 2021 [File: Thanassis Stavrakis/AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AP21068416319658-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)