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When the border straddles my home. Border villages between Québec and the United States

Explore the complexities of living in border villages between Quebec and the United States, highlighting issues of control, nervousness post-9/11, resident experiences, and the impact of globalization and border policies.

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When the border straddles my home. Border villages between Québec and the United States

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  1. When the border straddles my home.Border villages between Québec and the United States Dundee/ Fort Covington, 2004 Conference Borders in Globalization (BIG) Ottawa, September 25-26, 2014 Frédéric LasserreUniversité Laval

  2. Saint-Pamphile, 2004.

  3. Stanstead/Rock Island

  4. Border control, Canusa St, Beebe Plain, 2013 Beebe Plain, Canusa St: Québec on the right, Vermont to the left, 2003 Haskell Library, Rock Island 2013

  5. Rock Island

  6. Rock Island border, 2003 A growing US desire to control cross-border movements Rock Island border, 2013 Closed crossing point, 2013

  7. Pohénégamook

  8. Interviews with locals (2003, 2004, 2011, 2013 and 2014) show : • American border patrols have grown very nervous after Sept. 11, 2001 • Rupture in previous entrenched practices • Author witnessed clear uneasyness from American border police • Comment by a Canadian border officer : « ah yes, here you have a lot to say about border issues… » • Residents at times were asked to systematically report to US border office, even to fetch carrots in their garden or meet their boyfriend • Straddled homes: be careful of where you park • Arrest of Michel Jalbert, October 2002: « artificial border » • Some residents talk of « harassment » • Some point to the exaggerated control when going to the US side • Others underline the nervousness varies over time • Many residents underline controls in the villages aim at the wrong target: it is easy to cross in the country… so why harass the locals ?

  9. Straddled villages in Quebec are nothing new, werealreadynoted as a curiosity in the 1960s • Became a security issue on the US sideafter 9/11 • Patience from the localsthat endure whattheyconsideruseless restrictions • There are no artificalborders, itistheir management thatcreatesproblems -> globalisation is one force; policy and politicsanother

  10. Thank you !

  11. Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1842 confirms 1772 mistakes in demarcation

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