Arizona State University - School of Transborder Studies

Arizona State University - School of Transborder Studies

Border Region
United States, Mexico
Language(s)
Anglais
Type
Portrait of an institution
Main Category
Employment – Education – Economy
Theories – Concepts – Terms
Introduction

Arizona State University's School for Transborder Studies offers university and interdisciplinary courses specialised in the study of issues relating to the US-Mexican border.

Summary

This training was set up in response to the complex issues that the Latin American population faced in this part of the world.  The border region, which includes 6 Mexican states and 4 American states, has specific characteristics in terms of demography and migratory dynamics. This vast territory studied has become a complex ecological, geopolitical and economic unit whose development significantly impacts the United States, Mexico and part of Latin America.

Content

The School for Transborder Studies belongs to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.

Its subjects of choice are: migration, health and applied social sciences, media and culture, languages and language learning and economics and migration policy common to the United States and Mexico.

In concrete terms, the School for Transborder Studies is involved in several missions: First of all, the setting up of undergraduate and graduate degree programmes devoted to interdisciplinary study of the dynamics and phenomena that exist in transborder territories, comprehension of the cultures specific to these territories, the study of changes affecting their populations and the development of solutions designed to improve the status of and outcomes for these  populations. Also, the development of applied, engaged research on questions and issues specific to the territory along the US-Mexican border. In addition, the setting up of partnerships and cooperation with actors and institutions committed to solving the problems of these territories. Finally, the dissemination of expertise and knowledge developed in the study of borders.

Conclusions

Arizona State University's School for Transborder Studies is seeking to create an environment conducive to integrated teaching, research and commitment to the community, with the ambition of becoming a reference institution in research and teaching devoted to border studies.

Their proximity to the US-Mexico border explains their desire to understand the common, but asymmetrical development of the two border territories and hep to resolve the issues these territories face.  To fulfil this ambitious mission, the school has chosen several priorities: To develop the political that will enable it to act in a positive way on mass immigration in a region affected by a serious aging of the population; to identify and implement economic, political, educational, scientific, and social solutions to support the populations most marked by border issues; to update and encourage endogenous dynamics in this part of the world, dynamics to cultivate on the fringes of national constraints that are sometimes in competition with them. 

Key Messages

The School for Transborder Studies has developed a resolutely engaged teaching and research programme designed to address and resolve the issues facing the populations that live on the US-Mexican border.

This engagement is found in the composition of the degree programmes, in the choice of the priority research areas, in the School's relations with the institutions and other actors also engaged with this issues, the support for social or community actors and the help offered to political decision-makers.

Lead

School of Transborder Studies

Author of the entry
Sylvain
MARBEHANT
Contributions

College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Arizona State University

Links

https://sts.asu.edu/

Keywords
University teaching
Research
university training
Border studies
Latin American populations
US-Mexican border
Contact Person(s)
Date of creation
2020