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ONLINE (because of Covid-19)

Our workshops’ prime activity is launching the Network. This requires training in consistency of methods and data-collection for the members of the network and our students. The Workshop series will (1) host our partners and invite them to propose specific indicators or variables for the database based on their own work and specializations,and (2) allow us to connect with a wide range of local, regional and national partners, including non-academic organizations, with an interest in developing this research and training.

Workshop #1 VICTORIA, BC

March 31, 2021

Held online due to health regulations implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, this workshop’s prime activity was launching the Network. This workshop allowed us to (1) virtually host our partners and invite them to propose specific indicators or variables for the database based on their own work and specializations, and (2) connect with a wide range of local, regional and national partners, including non-academic organizations, with an interest in developing this research and training.

Our Network hypothesizes that EU responses to crisis are shaping policies with implications for human and state security, and that these responses are often exemplary as international models though not implemented with consistency across the EU.

To assess this situation, our Jean Monnet Network Team Human-to-Military Security Data Base discussed ideas/proposals for the development of database indicators at our first workshop.

Our core research focus is to challenge the well-established conception that borders are primarily territorial boundaries that emerge out of international treaties and thus that security issues should naturally be dealt with at the boundary line. Our contention is that contemporary borders in our era of globalization are processes that are in many instances ‘a-territorial’ (de-territorialized) because the border is ultimately carried out on individuals, goods and/or information on the move. Bordering processes have moved away from the boundary line and are individualized to persons and goods, occurring at sites in countries of origin, across transit countries, and within their country of destination.

Our methodology relies on the construction of datasets concerning the interplay between border policy and human/state security, with emphasis on instances of cooperation and collaboration straddling border internal and external to the European Union. We include maritime borders as well as borders within the EU and along its periphery.

Workshop #2 STRASBOURG, FR

November 30 – December 1, 2022

Workshop participants attended both in person and virtually. Twenty participants from institutions across Canada and Europe discussed their research for the Human to Military Security Database project. Topics included collecting data and designing questions, data harmonization, developing indicators and collecting data, mapping data, and more.

Workshop #3 OPOLE, POLAND

September 10 – 13, 2023

In collaboration with the University of Opole and the University of Wroclaw, we organized a shoulder of the Borderland Facing a Polycrisis in Opole to discuss our database early results. We invited applicants to submit complete panel proposals (3 papers + chair and discussant) or abstracts for individual papers with reference to the thematic scope of the conference: border data. We awarded travel and accommodation grants to successful applicants to co-author a paper or report with other BIG Lab team members.

Research Area examples:

• Human to security data/database; How databases serve social sciences
• Building a data base/developing indicators; Collecting Juridical Data – EU and France
• Criminalization of solidarity in the EU
• Protracted border disputes in the post-Soviet region
• Crisis on mix migration flow in the EU
• Human migration and Border dynamics
• Legal friction and fiction/territorial integrity

Final Conference STRASBOURG, FR

June 3 – 4, 2024

In collaboration with the Transfrontier Euro-Institut Network and the Institute of Political Studies (University of Strasbourg), we hosted our network conference at the EU Parliament. We had an open call for papers for researchers who are utilizing innovative data to address critical issues shaping the EU’s internal and peripheral border policies in comparative perspectives. We awarded travel and accommodation grants to 40 successful applicants. They were given the option to co-author papers or reports with other BIG_Lab team members. Of the papers presented, 14 were submitted for publication, and 10 are being edited for the Journal of Borderland Studies. Research areas include:

• Theoretical and methodological issues concerning the development and use of quantitative datasets in border studies.
• Analyses of the various crises shaping European borders using the Jean Monnet Network Data (JMN) and other databases.
• Analyses of borders and border policies comparing the European Union and EU member states to other regional organizations.

To learn about what this JMNetwork is doing, watch these introductory videos:

Introductory

Video #1 is a general presentation of the works of the Network:

Video #2 is a short presentation of the methodology, the database, the dyadic research:

Video #3 is a short presentation of the MySQL data base format and construction:

Video #4 is “Preparing Dataset” a short presentation of the fundamental research work necessary to develop the database i.e. from a classic library information collection to its standardization into the database:

Advanced

Video #5 is “What is a Relational Database?” exploring the basics of relational databases and explaining frequently-used terminology with examples from the BiG Dyads database:

Video #6 “How to Input Data?” exploring the rules and standards for preparing clean data in order to input them into a relational database:

Video #7 is “How to Query a Database” explores the relational database language (SQL) and its usage to query a database, with examples: