INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MIGRATION AND BORDER SECURITY STUDIES
About the Centre
History, Vision, and Goals
The International Centre for Migration and Border Security Studies emerges as the result of former border security officers turned academics meeting with applied migration and border security scholars during the April 2019 Borders in Globalization conference in San Diego, California. Over the course of this conference, this international group identified the need to establish a global community of scholar-practitioners –– the aim being to support migration and border security studies to become a distinctive field of research and scholarship. Reflective of the way globalisation has expanded national borders from the physical to virtual realms, this online centre serves as a virtual medium through which migration and border security practitioners and scholars (including graduate, postgraduate, and research higher degree students) from around the world can connect, collaborate, and discover.
Founders
A Multidisciplinary and Global Team of Migration and Border Security Scholar-Practitioners
Thanks to the considerable investment of time and effort these founders have made, the International Centre for Migration and Border Security Studies will surely become an internationally recognised centre where distinctive, scholarly-informed, and practitioner-focused applied research and scholarship specific to migration and border security can flourish.
Dr. Kelly Sundberg
Co-Director (Northern Hemisphere) | Canada
Kelly is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary, AB. Prior to his academic career, Kelly served over fifteen years in various border security, immigration enforcement, and policy positions with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA).