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Reimagination of the border is led inordinately by fear, and the powerful forces of securitization and militarization by the United States. Identity now requires verification at the border according to national standards where numerous hybrid, transient, and traditional forms are not acknowledged or tolerated.
Borderlands, once an amorphous and extensive construct of affinity, are now emerging as scaled-down, managed corridors and gateways where “top down” visions for national security and identity fail to align with “bottom up” regional, community, and cross-border organizational reimagination of how the border works.
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“Borderlands culture is challenged in the twenty-first century as Americans and Canadians attempt to reinvent the border between them yet risk the loss of the borderland integration that assures continuity and sustainability in a rapidly evolving global reconstruction of space and place.”(Academic Search Premier. Web. 9 Nov. 2016)
Keywords: imagination; identity; affinity; borderlands culture; Canada–US border; global reconstruction
“There needs to be a balance between local stakeholder (bottom up) and national stakeholder (top down) management of our border region.” (Konrad, 2010; Konrad and Everitt,