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Formerly the Western Social Science Association

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AAAS - African/African American Studies
ABS - Association For Borderland Studies
AFIT - Economics (Association For Institutional Thought)
AIS - American Indian Studies
AS - Asian Studies
CDD - Chronic Disease & Disability
CJC - Criminal Justice & Criminology
CMS - Communication Studies
CS - Canadian Studies
EG - Economics General

EPN - Environmenal Policy & Natural Resource Management
GD - Globalization & Development
HIS - History
LASC - Latin American Studies & Chicano-Iberian Culture Network
MC - Mass Communication
MENA - Middle East & North Africa
NPPS - Non-Profit, Philanthropy, Social Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
NZAS - New Zealand & Australia Studies
PA - Public Administration
PFB - Public Finance & Budgeting

PS - Political Science
RAS - Rural & Agricultural Studies
SA - Sociology & Anthropology
SES - Slavic & Eurasian Studies
SP - Social Psychology
SW - Social Work
URPE - Union For Radical Political Economists
US - Urban Studies
WGBL - Women's, Gender, & LGBTQ Studies

ABS - Association For Borderland Studies

15
Apr
2023

ABS 38 - Climate, Nature, and Environment II

04-15-2023 8:00 am -9:30 am
Colonade

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Kimberly Collins, California State University, San Bernardino

 

“Border walls and climate change”, Elisabeth Vallet, University of Quebec, Montreal

“The river is a Natural Resource, not a Border”: Understanding the Tonga Borderland Community Responses to State Border Security Policy in Binga District of Zimbabwe, c. 1957 – 2017.” , Teverayi Muguti, Stellenbosch University

“Remote Frontiers and Hostile Environments: A Political Ecology of the Sonoran Borderlands”, Ana Sanchez-Bachman, SUNY Binghamton

“The Environmental Movement and a Sacred Migratory Bird in the Himalayan Borderland”, Kei Nagaoka, University of Tokyo

15
Apr
2023

ABS 39 - “Borders from the 21st Century”: advances for a comparative research agenda

04-15-2023 8:00 am -9:30 am
Xavier

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Xavier Oliveras González, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

 

“Systemic shocks and bordering: a comparative analysis of the vulnerability and resilience of cross-border governance”, Francisco Lara Valencia, Arizona State University; Hilda García Pérez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico; Enrique Varela Álvarez, Universidad de Vigo, Spain

“Institutional innovation and cross-border planning at the USA-Mexico Border”, Sergio Peña Medina, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

“Planning cross-border riverfronts: a case from the Mexico-US border”, Xavier Oliveras González, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

“Perspectivas del proceso de “reshoring” en la Región Sonora-Arizona”, Pablo Wong González, Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo (CIAD)

“La frontera Ciudad Hidalgo–Tecún Umán: prácticas locales como resiliencia cultural ante la política de contención migratoria”, Guadalupe Ortiz Gómez, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología - El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad San Cristobal

15
Apr
2023

ABS 41 - Session 3. Border Economics: Convergence and Business Cycles

04-15-2023 9:45 am -11:15 am
Abbey South

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: José I Rodríguez Sánchez, Baker Institute Center for the United States and Mexico

 

Discussants:

David Molina, University of North Texas

Eliseo Díaz, Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Tom Fullerton, University of Texas- El Paso

Haoying Wang, New Mexico Tech

 

“Neoclassical versus structuralist explanations for the lack of convergence on the US-Mexico border”, James Gerber, Center for the U.S. and Mexico, Baker Institute for Public Policy; San Diego State University 

“Remesas y la cuenta corriente de la balanza de pagos”, Eliseo Díaz, Colegio de la Frontera Norte 

“Monthly frequency business cycle downturn likelihood estimation for Ciudad Juarez: 1990 - 2021”, Steven Fullerton and Tom Fullerton, University of Texas- El Paso

“Fuel tourism in the US-Mexico Border Region”, Jorge Ibarra Salazar, Tecnológico de Monterrey

15
Apr
2023

Panel 42 - Young people, families, and borders

04-15-2023 9:45 am -11:15 am
San Pedro

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Andreanne Bisonette, University of Quebec at Montreal

 

“Sliding on borders. Production and mass consumption of skateboarding culture between Tijuana and California to rethink the US-Mexico global border”, Andrea Buchetti, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

“Crossed by the border: Youth Lived Experience with Flooding in an Urbanized Transborder Watershed”

Hilda García-Pérez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
Adriana Zuñiga, University of Arizona

Francisco Lara-Valencia, Arizona State University

“Unaccompanied Children and the Violence of Borders”, Carla Angulo-Pasel, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

“Mixed-Status Families as Cultural Heritage Producers: Fleeing Persecution & Crafting Community Resilience”, Rafael Martínez, Arizona State University

15
Apr
2023

ABS 44 - Book Panel: Nicosia Beyond Partition. Complex Geographies of the Divided City

04-15-2023 9:45 am -11:15 am
Abbey North

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Victor Konrad, Carleton University

 

Presenter: Anna Casaglia, University of Trento

 

Discussants: Jussi Laine, University of Eastern Finland

15
Apr
2023

ABS 40 - Book Presentation: Border Culture – Theory, Imagination, Geopolitics

04-15-2023 11:30 am -12:50 pm
Xavier

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Anna Casaglia, Trento University

 

Presentor: Victor Konrad, Carleton University

15
Apr
2023

ABS 43 - Border placemaking and foodmaking

04-15-2023 11:30 am -12:45 pm
San Pedro

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Lois Stanford, New Mexico State University

 

“Crossing the Border for Food: Arab and Chinese Foodways in Windsor/Detroit and Seattle/Vancouver”, Rob Nelson, University of Windsor

“African Cultural Heritage, Identity And Food In South-Western Nigeria”, Adewumi Cecilia Enitan and Adewumi Oluwadare Benedict, Lagos State Fire Service, Nigeria

“Building a Sense of Place in the US-Mexico Borderlands: Placemaking and Placekeeping along the Tijuana-San Diego Border”, Lawrence A Herzog, University of Californa, San Diego

15
Apr
2023

ABS 45, LASC 19 - Migration And Borders In Latin America

04-15-2023 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
Abbey North

Jesus Ruiz Flores
Title:
First Coordinator
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Affiliation: Universidad de Guadalajara

 

Debra D. Andrist
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Affiliation: Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA

 

Fernando Pedro Viacava-Breiding
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Affiliation: Tecnologico Nacional de Mexico, Campus Morelia

 

Moderator: Hilda García Pérez, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

 

“Migración fronteriza colombo - venezolana: Impacto socioeconómico en la ciudad de Cúcuta, Norte de Santander”, Cesar Augusto Panizo-Cardona and Johanna Milena Mogrovejo-Andrade, Universidad Francisco de Paula Santander - UFPS Colombia
“Transiciones en la Dinámica migratoria de Nogales, Sonora: De migrantes laborales a solicitantes de protección internacional”, Humberto García-Jiménez and María Inés Barrios-de la O, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, México
“Capacidades de gestión de la población migrante mediante la participación para lograr ambientes de calidad e inclusión en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México”, Leticia Peña-Barrera and Luis Herrera-Terrazas, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México
“(In)movilidades en zonas fronterizas: el caso del Tapón del Darién”, Daniela Bea, University of Quebec, Montreal

15
Apr
2023

ABS 46 - Border (Geo)Politics And Political Leadership

04-15-2023 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
Abbey South

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Paul Graystone, University of Birmingham

 

“(War)time and Policy Entrepreneurship on Border Security and Immigration Policies in the Trump Administration”, Vincent Boucher, University of Quebec at Montreal

“‘Security Realism’ vs Pan-African Construct of Nigeria's Border Diplomacy in Africa”, Oladotun Emmanuel Awosusi, University of Fort Hare, South Africa

“China’s Border Regions in Xi Era: Looking Beyond the Territorial State”, Naina Singh, National Chung Hsing University

“Populist Border Politics: Insights from “Trump’s America” and “Orbán’s Hungary””, James Scott, University of Eastern Finland

15
Apr
2023

ABS 47 - Book Panel: Border Voices / Voces fronterizas. NoPassport Press, 2021

04-15-2023 1:00 pm -2:30 pm
San Pedro

Dr. Paul Richardson
Title:
Coordinator
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Affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Birmingham, UK

 

Moderator: Laurie Trautman, Border Policy Research Institute, Western Washington University

 

Presenter: Robert Neustadt, Northern Arizona University

 

Discussants:

Kiri Avelar, University of California Santa Barbara

Leah Mundell, Northern Arizona University