ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the state of insecurity and the related impacts of security on the borderlands between the United States and Canada. The geographical states of insecurity are well documented and acknowledged if not defined explicitly as a set of underlying conditions that contribute to and align impacts of the enhancement of security in the bordered lands and borderlands of Canada and the United States. The chapter explains the identity constructs emergent in the borderlands. More affirmation of borderlands community, place and culture is necessary to realign the operational space that security primacy and insecurity have appropriated. Affirmation of borderlands community, place and culture lies at the very heart of an effective border relationship that works for both the United States and Canada. Security primacy is the prevailing construct in the post-9/11 Canada-US borderlands. Policy makers are uncertain at best, and polarized at worst, about what needs to be done regarding the growing impacts of security primacy.
