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)

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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

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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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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!