BORDERS IN
GLOBALIZATION Exploring Borders in the 21st Century
2013 – 2019
PNWER Annual Summit July 2015
Laurie Trautman
Associate Director
Border Policy Research Institute
Western Washington University
Borders in Globalization
PROJECT HYPOTHESES:
Borders are territorial in nature; but in today’s world are borders: • less territorial or • a-territorial?
– Preclearance = borders diminishing? – Cyber-security, biometry = borders everywhere?
• If borders are less about territory, how does this
influence border policy? • What are the key issues for the PNWER Region?
Borders in Globalization
PROJECT FOCUS: • Comparative/policy-relevant border studies in:
- Governance - History
- Flows - Security
- Culture - Sustainability
• Across the following regions:
- Pacific Northwest - Quebec - Alberta - Atlantic - Prairies - Arctic - Great Lakes
Borders in Globalization
PROJECT ACTIVITIES:
• Roundtables – connect scholars to policy-makers
• Research – identify questions and build knowledge on
borders (graduate students)
• International Conferences - mobilize and present
research
• Summer Schools – develop future cadre of border
scholars working with policy makers
Borders in Globalization
PROJECT AT A GLANCE:
• Funding: $4.3m
• Timeline: 2013 – 2019
• Director: Dr. Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
• Partners: 19 Canadian and international universities;
30 non-academic institutes
• Website: www.biglobalization.org
Borders in Globalization
Examples of current studies:
• Federal-provincial governance of labour migration in the Prairies:
Representations, policies and practices of transnational workforce
(Dupreyon)
• Borders, governance and indigenous peoples in the Yukon Territory
(Battimelli w/Brunet-Jailly)
• Governance study of the Salish Sea (BPRI)
Other Papers Commissioned @ UVic – UVic BIG Student Fellowships In
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Indigenous and Community Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs) in Cascadia: Geopolitics of
Fostering Self-Determination, Biocultural Diversity and Resilience Eli Enns and Gleb Raygorodetzky
(EBJ)
Laws of the Land Mapping the Interface of Indigenous and State Jurisdictions in Co-management
(Sarah Colgrove)
A Nation within A State: Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks and International Geopolitics in Canada (Eli Enns
and Gleb Raygorodetzky)
(Re)Defining Indigenous Economic Borders in British Columbia. (Astrid Neimann-Zajac)
Indigenous diplomatic relations (Jeff Corntassel)
Urban Indigenous Nationhood: Resurgence and Regeneration in the City (Corntassel and T.Alfred)
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) Cross-border sex work/trafficking (Wrenna Robertson) (HKH w/Senator Marilyn Chase)
Impact of border securitization on precarious female migrants in the US/Mexico context - Carla
Angulo-Pasel (Hallgrimsdottir & Payan)
The tension/intersections of the TFWP and domestic migration of farm workers in the Okanagan -
Edwin Hodge (HKH & Hale)
QUESTIONS?
SUGGESTIONS?
THANK YOU!
