Did you ever dream of a worldwide database on border issues?

About the Database

This is an incredible challenge that the Jean Monnet Network "Human to Military Security Policies" project started to address in 2020.

Borders In Globalization (BIG Lab) takes as its premise that the ongoing migration crisis in Europe is the worst humanitarian crisis in decades and is forcing Europeans to face past and future issues about borders and security. The policy decisions being made now will have a long-standing impact on the European Union and are not only reshaping Europe’s internal and peripheral borders, but also Europe’s values of integration. Moreover, in this era of globalization, much of the policy process around humanitarian aid, migration, and security, involve collaboration and cooperation across borders.

In light of this clear need for comparative, cross-border research, the Jean Monnet Network "Human to Military Security Policies" project has been building a database, with the goal of collecting systematic and comprehensive data on European Integration across each internal and external border dyad from the perspective of human to military security in the EU. The database includes over 160 dyad pairs, where either one or both dyad countries is an EU member state. Data on a wide range of indicators and variables on the dyads covering all aspects of the human to security continuum, from defense spending to infrastructure continuity to tourism and trade.

Conference

BIG Lab’s interdisciplinary team will present their database research including their latest data findings; our borders scholars have varying backgrounds including Digital Humanities, Political Science, Law, Culture and Public Administration.  We will also showcase how border scholars from around the world are utilizing data to empower their own data research to address the crises shaping Europe’s internal and peripheral border policies through a comparative perspective.    

This conference is being organized by Borders in Globalization (BIG_Lab), University of Victoria, The Euro-Institut / Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network and the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Strasbourg, University of Strasbourg, France).