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&#160;PhD students and Post Doctoral fellowsCall for paper proposal: On Security’s Impact on Border PoliciesUniversity of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, March 29 and 30, 2012&#160;We are looking for paper proposals from doctoral students and post doctoral fellows.Proposal deadline is December 10, 2011. Please send a 200 word proposal and resume including full contact information. Successful proposals will be invited to present their work at the workshop and publish their work.The workshop will focus on the impact of security policies on other border policies and perceptions: looking at policies including clandestine crossing, diplomacy, energy, environmental policy, governance, human rights, immigration, private property, monetary policy, resource management, trade, violence, vigilantism, water, and perception with broad overview talks and media/popular perceptions.Since 9/11 security issues have been at the forefront of border policy developments both in Europe and North America. The European Union (EU) member states and the North American states (Canada, Mexico and the United States) have, however, responded in a fundamentally different fashion. The European experience within the EU is largely influenced by its regional policy, with its tradition of local level and intergovernmental networks and policy-making practices, but also by a need to secure both internal and international borders in a manner coherent with pre-existing policies of partnership and cooperation. The resulting international border security policies engage bordering states on issues of economic development and security matters, while internal security is increasingly the co-production of large networks of territorial and functional governments (1) and organizations concerned with shared security across all twenty-seven member states. In North America, Canada and Mexico have been subjected to alignment pressures from the United States. Border security perspectives are primarily informed by the United States (US) administration’s understanding of criminal and immigration issues on its southern border that, in turn, is subject to considerable demographic and market pressures. This then, leads to attempts to unify policy answers to vast and regionally varied borderlands.&#160;If your paper proposal is selected we will invite you to Victoria BC Canada, and we will ask you to prepare a 12-minute talk and draft a 6,000 to 8,000 word paper addressing issues of change in policy due to the increased securitization of the border. The paper would have to look at data since 9/11 and just before, i.e. the last 10 years only and would address, specific changes such as demographic, geopolitical or socio-economic changes that would have occurred since 9/11 in your area of border or borderland policy study i.e. Europe, North America.&#160;Please send paper proposals by December 10th, 2011 we will confirm invitation and funding of your travel and conference expenses by December 20th. Also, we will prepare a proposal for a refereed publication either with a university press or a scholarly journal. This workshop is made possible thanks to funding from the European Union, EUCE University of Victoria, and the Government of Canada.&#160;Contact:Tara Williamson, Program Coordinator, European Studies Program, University of Victoria,eusprog@uvic.caEmmanuel Brunet-Jailly,ebrunetj@uvic.ca