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Connecting Border Studies and Border Policy: Exploring the Canada–U.S. Context

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  • Laurie Trautman

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The COVID-19 pandemic raises a variety of questions regarding how border studies can contribute much needed perspectives to inform timely, relevant, and often under-analyzed public policy issues. Whether concerned with immigration, trade, or culture and identity, questions about borders have taken on a new meaning in a relatively short period of time and are now unequivocally policy-relevant on a global scale. Addressing these issues demands closer engagement between border scholars and border policy and should mark a defining feature underlying a new direction for border studies. This paper explores the integration between border studies and border policy in the Canada – U.S. context, and suggests that a mix of public policy theories can provide a useful theoretical lens moving forward. Although focused on the Canada – U.S. relationship, this analysis has global relevancy for the future of border studies and for new directions for strengthening the impact of border studies on society, which will require pursing new ways of communicating and forging stronger, more dynamic relationships across industries and at different scales.

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  • Laurie Trautman, 2021. "Connecting Border Studies and Border Policy: Exploring the Canada–U.S. Context," Journal of Borderlands Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(5), pages 833-852, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjbsxx:v:36:y:2021:i:5:p:833-852
    DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2021.1968925
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