International Summer Institute

Borders in Globalization International Summer Institute

Borders in Globalization International Summer Institute

The Borders in Globalization Summer Institute is sponsored by the Institue for EU and European Studies, research program (BIG), and the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS), in partnership with the World Customs Organisation (WCO), The Transfrontier Operational Mission (MOT), Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER), Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), InterVISTAS Consulting Inc., the University of Lethbridge, and the Border Policy Research Institute (BPRI) at Western University.

This international, interdisciplinary Summer Institute on border and migration public policy in the EU and Canada offers two, week-long programs that each include thirty hours of seminars and six hours of practicum. Activities are aimed at engaging upper-level undergraduate and (post)graduate students, as well as junior scholars to discuss, with academic experts from the Borders in Globalization research program as well as professionals from the public, private and non-governmental sectors, themes that critically link literatures on migrations and borders in our era of security. Students will present and discuss their research.

Prospective students can apply to attend one or both of the week-long programs, and may choose to register in either of our accredited courses (see below), or attend the course(s) without credit. Students who choose the non-credit option will receive a certificate of completion.

Space is limited. No more than 25 students will be admitted to the program, so apply soon!

A list of speakers is provided in the tab below.

The summer institute will run from May 5th to July 30th, inclusive of the week-long summer residency.

Undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate studnets are eligible to apply.

Summer Residencies:

Week One (Mon-Fri, July 12-16) Trade and Customs Border in the 21st Century

Week one will explore how the regulatory environment of trading network redesign borders functionally, how in practice also changes custom policies and practices. Professionals from the Canadian Border Services Agency, Canadian Custom, Pacific North West Economic Region, and World Custom Organisation, and Academics will lead workshopped discussions; In class and online presentations and discussions, readings and practicum sessions, auditors and students will discover the reality of 21^st century borders: the borders of trade flows in a globalizing world.

Week Two (Mon-Fri, July 19-23) Cascadia Border Region in Comparative Perspective (with special examination of cross-border cooperation in Europe and around the world.)

Week two specifically focuses on local and regional changes affecting the local and regional politics and policies of cross border region and transboundary people. Our own Cascadian cross-border region is an excellent example of 21^st century cross-border regional policies and politics. The Mission Operationnelle Transfrontaliere (A European consortium of border region), the Pacific North West Economic Region and the University of Western Washington Bellingham Border Policy Research Institute, along with legal and policy expert will lead workshopped discussion and practicum sessions; Auditors and students will discover what a North American Cross Border Region looks like to compare it to European and other situations across the world.

Structure:

Each summer program is composed of 32 hours of instruction (two, three-hour modules per day, delivered each by different speakers) including 6 hours of practicum. At the end of each residency week, participants will present and then discuss their research policy paper.

Fees:

1) UVic Registration and tuition fees:

*All applicants who wish to attend the Summer Institute for credit must apply to become a visiting student at the 番茄社区. Please visit the UVic Application and Registration Fees tab below for further information.

*Full tuition grants are available for all applicants--please indicate your need for financial aid.

Accredited Courses:

ADMN 470 (undergraduate non-degree)
ADMN 523 (graduate non-degree)

Residency Dates:

Week 1: July 12-16
Week 2: July 19-23

Application Process:

If you wish to be considered for a tuition grant, you must include a 250-500 word request detailing your need for financial aid.

To apply, please send a Letter of Intent and C.V. to eusprog@uvic.ca with the following information:

“Summer Institute” in the email subject line;
Which residency you wish to attend: Week 1 and/or Week 2
Indicate whether you will be attending the Institute for credit (ADMN 470/523)*, or non-credit option (certificate of completion); *accredited course deadline has now passed
Your department, program, and year (e.g. Political Science, PhD, 3^rd year);
Topic of your MA or PhD Thesis/Dissertation;
Summary of a recent and related research or policy paper.
Financial aid request if applicable

Participation Conditions:

After completing one of the Summer Institute's residencies (held on July 5-9, 2021, and July 12-16, respectively), you will submit your final research/policy paper (approx 5,000 words) by 30 July, 2021.

Participation is competative, and subject to the submission of all required documents. Maximum 25 spaces per course.

Deadlines:

15 March 2021: UVic Visiting Student Application opens*

15 April 2021: Early-bird Summer Institute Application (if requesting application waiver and accomodation grant) + Visiting student application due*

30 May 2021: Tuition fees due*

1 July 2021: Applications for non-credit participation due

*Deadlines for admission and tuition fees only apply if you wish to receive academic credit.

Past Conference Topics:

2019

Topic 1: Asylum
What border policy reforms have been introduced in EU Member States over the past 5 years in response to the significant influx of asylum seekers in Europe? For example, reforms to entry / exit controls, identity management, public safety, security screening, and immigration enforcement measures.

Topic 2: Immigration Enforcement
Propose an analytical framework for assessing the gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) considerations with respect to developing immigration enforcement policy, including detention and removal.

Topic 3: Screening
Which countries, over the past 15 years, have had governments that have been involved in terrorism, systematic or gross human rights violations, a war crime, crimes against humanity or genocide? Compare and contrast Canada’s designated regime list with similar measures in place in other countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and/or EU Member States.

1. Summer Institute Application Fee
2. UVIC Application and Registration
3. Schedule
4. Speakers

All Summer Institute participants are required to pay a $300 registration fee. The registration fee secures your place on the Summer Institute.

Amount: $300.00
To pay online click here (Not required for 2021 Program)
Once complete, download your transaction # and email it to eusprog@uvic.ca

Students who are seeking academic credit for the Summer Institute must become a visiting student at the 番茄社区, and supply either a signed Agreement (see below) or a Letter of Permission (LOP) from their Home Institution, signed by their supervisor.

Apply to become a visiting student at UVIC as either:
1. as a graduate student
2. as an undergraduate student
Register in the appropriate course by 30 April 2021
Pay tuition fees by 31 May 2021*

*Tuition grants available to all applicants

1) UVic Application fees:

*All applicants who wish to attend the Summer Institute for credit must apply to become a visiting student at the 番茄社区 in one of the following ways:

VISITING GRADUATE STUDENT

via Canadian Graduate Student Research Mobility Agreement (CGSRMA): no fee
- see the CUGTA Agreement for more information
via Western Dean's Agreement (WDA): no fees
- see the WD Agreement for more information
via Non-degree application:
- Graduate fees (ADMN 523):
  - $126.50, if all transcripts come from institutions within Canada
  - $162.25 if any transcripts come from institutions outside of Canada
  - review the Steps to Apply

All Graduate students: Once you have determined which application path is most relevant to you, review the Submission of Documents check list.

VISITING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT

As either an exchange student; a study abroad student; or a Canadian student currently registered in a degree program.

Undergraduate fees (ADMN 470):
- $77.75 if all transcripts come from institutions within Canada
- $132.00 if any transcripts come from institutions outside of Canada
- review the Steps to Apply if you are:
  - Canadian Undergraduate student
  - International Undergraduate student
  - NOTE: All undergraduate applicants require a Letter of Permission (LOP) from their home insitution stating they have permission to register in ADMN 470.

2) Register and pay for course tuition fees:

*Tuition grants available to all applicants.

Identify the course you will be registering for:

ADMN 523 (graduate non-degree)
- A01: Residency Week 1
- A02: Residency Week 2

ADMN 470 (undergraduate non-degree)
- A01: Residency Week 1
- A02: Residency Week 2

Graduate Course

ADMN 523 (A01/A02):

$74.58 Graduate student society fee
Tuition:
- Domestic $1174.83
- International $1485.51
Tuition fees due: May 31*

Undergraduate Course

ADMN 470 (A01/A02):

- $38.43 undergraduate student society fee;
- $569.63 for Canadian and permanent residents in Canada;
- $2,492.60 for international students;
- Tuition fees due: May 31*

*A service charge of 1.5%, annualized at 19.56% is added to accounts not paid by their due date, at each month end.

Date	Speakers	Topic
12 July	Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly & Geoffrey Hale	Trade and Custom Borders in Comparative Perspective
13 July	Hubert Duchesneau	Future of Customs Border in Canada
13 July	Doug Band	Reforming Canada’s Customs Duty Management Regime
14 July	Frederique Berrod	Energy Union or Infrastructure creating new borders within the European Union
14 July	Key note: Alan Bersin	Machine learning and AI: Taking Risk Management to the next level
15 July	Richard St. Marseille	Canada's CBSA
15 July	Thomas Cantens	World Custom Organisation
16 July	Solomon Young	Airport Border Risk Management
16 July	Kathrine Richardson	The Canada/USA Cascadia Innovation Corridor and Cross Borders
19 July	Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly & Laurie Trautman	The Canada/USA Cascadia-Salish Sea Cross-Border Region
19 July	Kathrine Richardson	The Canada/USA Cascadia Innovation Corridor and Cross Borders
20 July	Matt Morisson	PNWER/ Making a crossborder region work
20 July	Key note: Alan Bersin	Border Lines and Global Flows / the Future of Border Management and Security is not What it Used to Be
21 July	Martin Guillermo	European Cross-Border Regions
22 July	Jean Peyrony	European Cross-Border Regions/Examples of successful developments and managements
22 July	Nathalie Vershelde & Ricardo Ferreira	Europe Where Border Regions Became Laboratories of Integration
23 July	Birte Wassenberg & Frederique Berrod	Origins and Consequences of Brexit
23 July	Bernard Reitel & Birte Wassenberg	Toward a Multilevel Governance of Territorial Cooperation in Europe?

Invited Speakers for Summer Institute, 2020

Week One

Week Two

July 12, 2021

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Project Lead (BIG), Associate Fellow (CFGS), Co-Director (EUS), Professor (SPA)

PhD (UWO), MA, LLB

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly joined CFGS in the Fall of 2011. He has been with the School of Public Administration since 2001. He is a political scientist, specializing in comparative and urban politics. He worked for the French public sector for 10 years, including postings with the French Small Business Administration and the Nord Pas-de-Calais Regional Council. Prior to his appointment at UVic, Emmanuel was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario from 1999-2000, and Assistant Director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame from 2000-2001.
At UVic’s School of Public Administration he is Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban and Border Region Policy, Director of the European Studies minor and of the European Union Centre for Excellence. He is also co-director of the Local Government Institute, and the editor of Journal of Borderland Studies. His key research areas are: Comparative Urban Governance and Governance of Cross-border Regions.

July 19, 2021

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Project Lead (BIG), Associate Fellow (CFGS), Co-Director (EUS), Professor (SPA)

PhD (UWO), MA, LLB

At UVic’s School of Public Administration he is Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban and Border Region Policy, Director of the European Studies minor and of the European Union Centre for Excellence. He is also co-director of the Local Government Institute, and the editor of Journal of Borderland Studies. His key research areas are: Comparative Urban Governance and Governance of Cross-border Regions.

July 12, 2021

Geoffrey Hale is a professor of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

July 19, 2021

Laurie Trautman, is Director of the Border Policy Reseach Institute, University of Washington, Bellingham, Washington, USA.

July 13, 2021

Hubert Duchesneau, Research Associate, International Research Center on the International Relations of Canada and Québec (CIRRICQ), Short-Term Customs Administrations’ Expert with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Retired Director of Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Hubert Duchesneau was, among others, stationed in Brussels with the World Customs Organization (WCO), as well as at the Mission of Canada to the European Union (EU). He is an accredited World Customs Organization (WCO) expert as Customs Modernization Advisor and Customs Diagnostic Facilitator. Hubert is also associated with the International Network of Customs Universities (INCU) and Borders in Globalization (BIG). Research Associate at CIRRICQ, his work focuses on the evolution of the border management profession and institution, international trade and customs capacity building, border management modernization and; integrity management.

Keynote Speaker: July 20, 2021

Alan D. Bersin, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School, Global Fellow, Canada Institute at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Inaugural North America Fellow, Canada Institute and Mexico Institute (Wilson Center), Former Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs (Ret.) U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security

Keynote Speaker: July 14, 2021

July 20, 2021

Matt Morisson, Matt Morrison, CEO of the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER), serves the public/private partnership established in 1991 by statute in the states of Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon, and the western Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and the Yukon Territory, and manages the Pacific Northwest Center for Regional Disaster Resilience. His duties include coordinating all projects of PNWER, including the Partnership for Regional Infrastructure Security and PNWER’s Center for Regional Disaster Resilience. The PNWER governing board includes legislative leadership of each state and province, governors and premiers, and private sector leaders. The mandate of PNWER is to enhance the economy of the region while maintaining the region’s natural environment. PNWER’s 18 working groups include energy, trade & economic development, border issues, agriculture, tourism, transportation, sustainable development, disaster resilience, transportation, invasive species, forestry, mining, tourism, water policy, and workforce development working groups. The Center for Regional Disaster Resilience coordinates a task force of the Critical Infrastructure Protection directors of the ten jurisdictions that are members of PNWER. The Center helped design the ConOps for the Washington State Fusion Center to incorporate Critical Infrastructure stakeholders, and the Center runs the Northwest Warning, Alert, and Response Network (NWWARN). It has led two Dam Sector exercise series for DHS and US Army Corps of Engineers (ACE), examining Dams and Levees on the Columbia River, as well as producing a Community Bio-Hazard Resiliency Roadmap working with state/provincial and local health officials and critical infrastructures on H1N1 resilience and the Office of Health Affairs at DHS. The Center has conducted dozens of Critical Infrastructure Interdependency exercises over the past 15 years, and developed a regional Action Plan. PNWER managed a project for the US Coast Guard and Transport Canada focusing on protocols for rapidly responding to and recovering from disasters and emergencies on either side of the border, with a focus on maritime business resumption strategies in the Pacific Northwest, as part of the ‘Beyond the Border and Perimeter Security Action Plan’. Mr. Morrison has also been instrumental in coordinating with the Canadian government on infrastructure and port security and preparedness issues related to the Pacific Northwest, including joint exercises leading up to the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Center has also conducted annual Cyber Security exercises in Washington State and in Idaho for the past several years, focusing on cyber resilience and training. Mr. Morrison lives in Seattle where he and his wife Beth have four adult children.

July 14, 2021

Richard St Marseille, Director Strategic Policy Branch Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)

July 21, 2021

Martin Guillermo Ramirez, has Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Master in Humanitarian Medicine and expert in international cooperation and relations with more than three decades of experience. He worked in youth organizations (1989-1995) and then in the Regional Government of Extremadura (Spain) in the scopes of cooperation for development, international relations and health and welfare policies (1995-2006). Since 2006 is the Secretary General of the Association of European Border Regions (AEBR/ARFE/AGEG), one of the oldest associations of regions in Europe (founded in 1971). AEBR represents the interest of European border and cross-border regions towards EU institutions, national authorities, and other bodies, promotes capacity building, strategic development and public policies to overcome cross-border obstacles; and also fosters the relationship with cross-border processes in other continents to exchange experience and best practice.

July 15, 2021

Thomas Cantens currently works as resident Advisor of the Director General of Niger Customs. Previously, he was the head of the Research Unit at the World Customs Organization, Brussels. Prior to taking his position at the WCO, he served in investigation and intelligence in French Customs and in three sub-Saharan Customs administrations. Thomas is an Associate Researcher at the Research Centre on International Development of the Auvergne University (CERDI, France). Having initially graduated as an engineer (POLYTECH Montpellier, France), he holds a PhD in social anthropology and ethnology (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,France) and a certificate in geospatial analysis (Ecole Nationale des Sciences Géographiques, France). He has published articles, research papers and books on customs reforms, quantification, and fragility and taxation."

July 22, 2021

Jean Peyrony, at present is Director General of Mission Opérationnelle Transfrontalière (MOT), a non-profit organization helping local authorities to develop cross border cooperation projects. Before, has been working in the European Commission, DG REGIO, in the Unit "Urban development, Territorial cohesion"; in DATAR (French national agency for spatial planning and regional development) where he was in charge of European territorial development and cooperation (ESPON, North West Europe and Alpine Space Interreg programmes), and of policy design of the EU cohesion policy; in the regional agency for spatial planning in Paris region, where he was head of the Observation Unit, and he took part in the writing of the regional plan; in public/private partnerships for urban development in Paris agglomeration and in La Reunion island (French outermost region), where he was project manager.

July 16, 2021

Katherine Richardson, is a professor of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara

July 22, 2021

Nathalie Vershelde, is a Belgian citizen, born on the national border between Belgium and France (30 meters from the border post!), and on the internal linguistic border between Flanders and Wallonia. Both her grandfathers were cross-border commuters…After a diverse career in national and regional public authorities and in the private sector Nathalie joined the European Commission in 2004, working initially in the external action service and more specifically in the unit dealing with relations with the USA and Canada. In 2006, she joined the Directorate for Regional and Urban Policy where she has contributed mostly to territorial cooperation files – mainly cross-border cooperation but not only. She was involved in drafting a far-reaching strategy for cooperation among the countries of the Danube river basin for instance. Since 2014 she has been working exclusively on cross-border cooperation. She has initiated much of the policy work carried out in the unit since 2015, and in particular the identification of persisting border obstacles within the European Union and the exploration of possible solution. More recently, she has participated in the drafting of articles in this field. Some can be found here:

July 16, 2021

Solomon Wong, is the President & CEO of InterVISTAS. He specializes in working together with governments and industry to build border facilitation solutions. He has written extensively in academic journals about how biometrics, blockchain, and other technologies are balanced against the dynamic threats and range of values for personal privacy. Solomon is an expert on regulatory and technological change and has advised federal ministers on a range of policy files. From re-engineering flows of people and goods through a journey to newer ways of navigating through a risk-managed environment, Solomon has helped to implement solutions for a range of private/public sector clients.

July 23, 2021

Frederique Berrod, is a professor of Law at the University of Strasbourg, France

July 23, 2021

Bernard Reitel, is a professor of Political Science at the University of Picardie, France

July 23, 2021

Birte Wassenberg, is a professor of History, Political Science Institute, University of Strasbourg, France