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CIC Montreal: After the pandemic…Open Borders: Gone Forever?

November 17, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm UTC+0

Après la pandémie…les frontières seront-elles plutôt fermées à l’avenir?

Partout dans le monde, les pays ont réagi à la pandémie en fermant les frontières et en imposant des confinements. Les impacts économiques, sociaux et politiques ont vite suivi et sont toujours là: les blocages dans les chaînes d’approvisionnement et autres perturbations commerciales, inégalités d’accès aux vaccins et aux équipements de protection, et fossé creusé entre riches et pauvres, entre autres. Ces effets négatifs et d’autres perdureront, soutient Ēlisabeth Vallet. L’héritage de la COVID sera un changement permanent des protocoles de circulation transfrontalière, qui aura un impact profond sur la nature du système international. Quelles sont les implications ? Comment les aborder ?

After the pandemic…Open Borders: Gone Forever?

Around the world, countries reacted to the pandemic by closing borders and imposing lockdowns. The economic, social and political impacts reverberated and are still with us. Supply-chain bottlenecks and other trade disruptions, inequities in access to vaccines and protective equipment, a deepened gulf between rich and poor. These and other negative effects will endure, argues Ēlisabeth Vallet. The legacy of COVID will be a lasting change in protocols for movement across borders, which will have a profound impact on the nature of the international system. What are the implications? How do we address them?

Ēlisabeth Vallet
Directrice de l’Observatoire de géopolitique de la Chaire Raoul-Dandurand; Professeure associée au département de géographie de l’Université du Québec à Montréal, et aussi Professeure en études internationales au Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean. Elle est chargée du programme “Borders in Globalization” au Québec et chercheuse pour le compte du programme “Borders in the 21st Century” de l’Université de Victoria. Elle a reçu le Richard Morrill Outreach Award pour 2017 de la part du Political Geography Specialty Group de l’Association américaine des géographes. Elle est également experte invitée et chroniqueuse pour Radio-Canada et Le Devoir. Ses recherches actuelles sont concentrées sur les frontières, la mondialisation, les murs frontaliers et la gouvernance.

Director of the Center for Geopolitical Studies of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies, affiliate professor at the Department of Geography at the University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM). She has been the Quebec lead for the Borders in Globalization program and is currently a co-researcher for the Borders in the 21th Century Program (University of Victoria). She is the recipient of the 2017 Richard Morrill Outreach Award from the AAG’s Political Geography Specialty Group. She is a regular columnist for Radio-Canada and Le Devoir. Her current research focuses on borders and globalization, border walls and governance.

17H – 19H / 5 – 7 p.m.
Le jeudi 17 novembre / Thursday, November 17, 2022
1250, rue Guy, Suite 804
Montréal

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  • Date: November 17, 2022
  • Time:
    5:00 pm - 7:00 pm UTC+0

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  • Espacio Mexico: 2055, rue Peel (RC), Montréal
  • Espacio Mexico, 2055, rue Peel (RC)
    Montreal, Quebec H3H 2L3 Canada
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