scholarly journals Cross-border Life in an American Exclave: Point Roberts and the Canada–US Border

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-51
Author(s):  
Pierre-Alexandre Beylier
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Border Town ◽  
Canadian City

By applying a theoretical framework based on different models proposed in border studies literature, this article analyzes the morphological, functional, institutional and identity characteristics that make Point Roberts—an American exclave in the Pacific Northwest—a “cross-border town”. Using an online survey and face-to-face interviews, the author combines both quantitative and qualitative research methods in order to examine the forces that link Point Roberts and the Canadian city of Delta that lies across the Canada–US border. This paper highlights the specificities of this unique geographic configuration as well the challenges that the border represents.

scholarly journals Stop traffick: Tackling demand for sexual services of trafficked women and girls

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 42-60
Author(s):  
Edward Keegan ◽  
Nusha Yonkova
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Commercial Sex ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
Sexual Services

The research focuses on the characteristic, knowledge, and experiences of buyers of sex, focusing on human trafficking and exploitation. Recognising that those trafficked for sexual exploitation are often exploited in the commercial sex industry, the research adopts an understanding of ‘demand’ in the context of human trafficking which includes demand for women in prostitution. In order to study buyers, a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research tools was used, including online questionnaires and face-to-face interviews. Through these methods, a total of 763 buyers engaged with the research, across four EU Member States (Ireland, Finland, Bulgaria and Lithuania). A number of important findings emerged in the research. Buyers interviewed were seen to have a complex view of sellers. They overwhelmingly viewed the sale of sex as a transaction between two consenting adults, but also saw sellers as different from other women. At the same time, although up to a third of buyers had witnessed or suspected exploitation, a gap emerged with regard to those who had reported such fears. Finally, irrespective of their knowledge of human trafficking, or measures targeting those who knowingly purchase sex from trafficked victims, buyers rarely considered trafficking when purchasing sex.Keywords: human trafficking; sexual exploitation; prostitution; demand; buyers

Television for the Peace Arch Country: Transnational Broadcasting History in the Pacific Northwest

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 510-529
Author(s):  
Helen Morgan Parmett
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Television Station ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
International Broadcasting ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Northwest Region ◽  
The U.S

This article contributes to international broadcasting history through a case study of a local, independent television station in the Pacific Northwest. KVOS-TV was one of a few stations on the U.S./Canadian border that sought out a cross-border audience, but it is unique in its efforts to produce programming to bridge these audiences into a unified viewing public that it termed the Peace Arch Country. The station’s international programming constituted its viewing public as translocal citizens in ways that supported the broader global ambitions of the Pacific Northwest region, as well as responded to and promoted the global ambitions of western liberal democracy and capitalism in the fight against Communism. KVOS-TV’s constitution of Peace Arch citizenship shows how television was a tool for creating translocal citizens, educating and governing them from a distance.

The Assessment of the INTERREG VA Program

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-69
Author(s):  
Joanna Kurowska-Pysz ◽  
Antonio Paulo Cargnin ◽  
Bruno de Oliveira Lemos ◽  
Aldomar Arnaldo Rückert
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
The State ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Implementation Assessment ◽  
Desk Research ◽  
Research Analysis

The chapter concerns the implementation assessment of cross-border projects supported by the INTERREG VA Poland - Slovakia 2014-2020 Program. The authors diagnosed the state of implementation of the Program (2018), and analyzed the conditions for managing cross-border projects on the Polish-Slovak borderland. The chapter outlines the role of a cross-border project in management of borderland development, and presents the life cycle of a cross-border project. The authors drew special attention to the results of projects and the administrative burden related to their implementation. The authors carried out quantitative and qualitative research with the participation of Polish and Slovak beneficiaries of the Program to achieve the objectives of the work. The research was supplemented by the desk research analysis covering the selected documents and statistical data (2014 – 2018). The conclusions and recommendations can be useful in the process of programming rules for implementing cross-border projects on the Polish-Slovak borderland and other borderlands after 2020.

scholarly journals Revolusi Pembelajaran Metodologi Ekonomi Selama Masa Pandemik Covid-19 Melalui Fitur “Tanya Egy”

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1421-1428
Author(s):  
Ermita Yusida ◽  
Vika Annisa Qurrata ◽  
Linda Seprillina
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Home Learning ◽  
Innovative Learning

Abstract: The research methodology is a subject that has an essential role in completing the study. Even though students have received this course during the college period, many students still feel confused in determining the research method to complete their thesis, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. The School from Home learning system prevents students from meeting face to face and talking directly to the lecturer. So, it is important to innovate where students can ask freely about the problems of both quantitative and qualitative research methods. So, there needs innovative learning to solve it. Authors made an innovation called Tanya Egy, based on a website application for Question and Answer (Q&A) about research methodology problems, both quantitative or qualitative. The Tanya Egy application has been synchronized with SPEDOL (Economic Library Service System and Online Data), owned by the Department of Economic Development FE UM. In this application, there are also many lecturers with econometric expertise and lecturers with expertise in the field of qualitative research methods. So this feature is not only for students who are taking research methods but also for students who are preparing a thesis or students who are currently on the verge of confusion in completing their thesis. The result of this activity is that 23 students have used and asked questions online through the Ask Egy feature. As many as 80 percent of students said this feature was beneficial in completing their thesis.   Abstrak : Metodologi penelitian merupakan matakuliah yang memiliki peranan penting dalam penyelesaian studi. Meskipun selama masa kuliah mahasiswa telah mendapatkan matakuliah ini akan tetapi masih banyak mahasiswa merasa kebingungan dalam menentukan metode penelitian untuk menyelesaikan skripsi.  Kondisi ini diperparah saat adanya pandemi Covid-19. Sistem pembelajaran School from Home membuat mahasiswa dibatasi untuk bertatap muka dan berbicara langsung dengan dosennya. Sehingga, penting untuk melakukan inovasi dimana mahasiswa dapat bertanya bebas mengenai permasalahan metode penelitian baik kuantitatif maupun kualitatif. Penemuan inovasi aplikasi “Tanya Egy” merupakan fitur yang berupa website khusus untuk Tanya jawab permasalahan metodologi penelitian secara kuantitatif dan kualitatif. Aplikasi Tanya Egy telah tersinkronisasi dengan SPEDOL (Sistem Pelayanan Pustaka Ekonomi dan Data Online) yang telah dimiliki oleh jurusan Ekonomi Pembangunan FE UM. Dalam aplikasi ini juga tergabung banyak dosen dengan keahlian ekonometrika maupun dosen dengan keahlian di bidang metode penelitian kualitatif. Sehingga fitur ini tidak hanya untuk mahasiswa yang sedang menempuh metode penelitian namun juga untuk mahasiswa yang akan menyiapkan skripsi atau mahasiswa yang saat ini berada diambang kebingungan dalam penyelesaian skripsi. Hasil dari kegiatan ini yaitu terdapat sebanyak 23 mahasiswa yang sudah memanfaatkan dan bertanya secara daring melalui fitur Tanya Egy. Kemudian sebanyak 80 persen mahasiswa mengatakan bahwa fitur ini sangat membantu dalam penyelesaian skripsi.

scholarly journals Island Aging in the Ninth Decade and Beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 50-51
Author(s):  
Elaine Eliopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Community Context ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Island Communities

Abstract This novel research was designed to explore the lived experience of the aging body and its impact on social exclusion in remote island environments. Twenty three participants, aged 80 to 102 years old, in the Pacific Northwest, USA, were interviewed to explore the role their bodies played in everyday life. Despite presenting limited choices and lifestyle options, the island communities appeared to foster rather than impede a sense of competency and autonomy in the lives of these later life participants. Their ability to navigate their worlds, despite their physical limitations, was apparent in their reports of inclusion in the manner they desired. The island community context, characterized by low technology and mostly face to face encounters for goods and services, presented the participants with the possibility of accessible and meaningful engagement. Their sense of self and inclusion casts doubt on the dominant narrative of decline typically used to describe these late years. New narratives of corporeal being emerged from the data, demonstrating a complexity not captured by the singularity of the decline narrative. The visual methodology utilized enriched the depth and range of the semi-structured interviews, encouraging participants to think critically about their bodies. Possibilities for further research could explore the nuances of these new narratives and whether a different understanding of the older body may be useful.

scholarly journals Sex Trafficking at the Border: An Exploration of Anti-Trafficking Efforts in the Pacific Northwest

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Norfolk ◽  
Helga Hallgrimsdottir
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
Legal Frameworks

The prevalence of human trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour in the Pacific Northwest has been well documented in recent years. This paper focuses specifically on trafficking for sex work across the British Columbia and Washington State border and seeks to determine whether the border is an effective instrument or tool for the identification and intervention of human trafficking for sex work. We provide an exploration of the legal frameworks and policies on either side of the border and offer an analysis of the cross-border anti-trafficking efforts carried out at the borderlands. The paper concludes that current mechanisms fail to appropriately address and combat the issue of cross-border sex trafficking for several reasons, including the following: a lack of uniform definitions of sex trafficking; the conflation of migrant sex work and sex trafficking, leading to misidentification at the border; and an emphasis on border security measures over victim support. Recommendations for enhanced responses are provided.

scholarly journals Towards Cross-Border Environmental Policy Spaces in North America: Province-State Linkages on the Canada-U.S. Border

AmeriQuests ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Debora L. VanNijnatten
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
New England ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Environmental Relations ◽  
Governance Arrangements ◽  
Over Time

A growing number of case studies have painted a picture of a burgeoning network of subnational and cross-border regional environmental linkages along the Canada-United States border, a development which may indicate an evolution in governance arrangements such that cross-border environmental policy spaces are being created. In addition to increasing in number, this literature suggests that cross-border interactions have become more formalized, more functionally intense and increasingly multilateral, or regional, in orientation. This paper explores in a comprehensive, cross-regional manner the finding of these case studies with regard to the extent and intensity of subnational activity by examining the findings of a 2005 survey of environmental linkages between states and provinces along the Canada-U.S. border. The survey findings indicate that subnational and regional interactions have been institutionally and functionally ‘intact’ for longer than most observers of Canada-U.S. environmental relations might expect. One of the most interesting findings is that subnational and regional cross-border environmental linkages, contrary to conventional wisdom, have become more numerous over time but not necessarily more intense in functional terms. Moreover, as expected, environmental linkages are clearly regionally concentrated; clusters of highly linked states and provinces can be found along the Canada-U.S. border, particularly in New England, the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest. Each of the clusters – or environmental regions – exhibits unique characteristics in terms of the extent and intensity of cross-border linkages.

Regional Patterns in Prevelar Raising

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-50
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Regional Distribution ◽  
Northern Great Plains ◽  
Upper Midwest ◽  
The West ◽  
Regional Patterns ◽  
The North ◽  
The Pacific

Prevelar raising is the raising of TRAP and DRESS vowels before voiced velars. While BAG-and BEG-raising have been described in Canada, the Upper Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest, an in-depth investigation of their distribution across North America is lacking, especially for BEG. Using an online survey distributed to over 5,000 participants via Reddit (which skews towards younger White males) and ordinary kriging for spatial interpolation, this study finds that prevelar raising is more widespread than previously reported. BAG-raising is found in much of the North and the Upper Midwest. BEG-raising is far more variable and is common across much of the Midlands and the West, with concentrated pockets in the Northern Great Plains and various other regions. This data suggests that the two can occur independently, with areas like the upper Midwest exhibiting BAG-raising alone, and the Midlands and the West reporting BEG-raising alone. These findings suggest that additional research on prevelar raising and other infrequent phonological variables is required to uncover their regional distribution and social meaning.

Enhancing Cross-Border Cooperation through Local Actors’ Involvement. The Case of Tourism Cooperation in Bihor (Romania) – Hajdú-Bihar (Hungary) Euroregion

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Badulescu ◽  
Daniel Badulescu ◽  
Afrodita Borma
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Nation State ◽  
European Policy ◽  
European Level ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Cross Border Cooperation

For centuries, borders have been considered as firm lines legitimating and defending the essence of the nation-state. However, present times report a redefinition of the role and importance of the border and of the border regions. At European level, the emergence and development of a common European policy have fostered cross-border cooperation (CBC) and self-governance through an increased involvement of local authorities and communities. The paper investigates, both theoretically and based on an empirical quantitative and qualitative research, the role and effectiveness of CBC cooperation in tourism sector in Bihor – Hajdú-Bihar Euroregion.

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