Geopolitics
The Passport as a Political Weapon: Deconstructing the Global Hierarchy of Mobility
A Nepali passport grants visa-free access to only 35 countries, while a Singaporean passport opens 192, a disparity that is not geographical but fundamentally political. This cruel hierarchy of mobility, where a document's color dictates a person's destiny, is a modern-day instrument of exclusion that betrays the promise of a borderless world and exposes the Westphalian system's inherent injustice against the Global South.
