In collaboration with ACSUS,  CIGI is pleased to announce that video presentations from the January 12, 2009 workshop: North American Perspectives on Borders & Security, are now available on this website.  ACSUS and CIGI have partnered to develop a media library of timely video presentations by experts on a range of North American policy issues. The current video series features presentations on the current status of North American border security, and policy options for the future.

As of June 1, new rules are in place which require passports at the U.S.-Canada border. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano recently visited Parliament Hill amid heightened concerns that the Obama administration is not particularly concerned with a "thickening border". 

Although the issues facing the US-Mexico and US-Canada borders are not the same, border policy in all three countries has been, and will increasingly be shaped by the same forces: security politics, deepening economic integration and ecological changes.

The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS), in partnership with the North American Center for Transborder Studies (NACTS), Arizona State University, and the Border Policy Research Institute (BPRI), Western Washington University held a workshop, North American Perspectives on Borders and Security: Developing a Policy Narrative, at San Diego State University on January 12, 2009. 

Intended to generate a diverse dialogue between scholars and policy practitioners, the overarching objective of the workshop was to move from theory to application by establishing a framework or structure linking the academic and policy communities.

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