Karine Côté-Boucher

Dr. Karine Côté-Boucher is Associate Professor at the School of Criminology at Université de Montréal, where she is also responsible for the Master’s and graduate diploma in security, and a research fellow at the van Vollenhoven Institute at Leiden University (Netherlands).  

Her expertise covers border security organizations and policy while her research investigates how borders shape our lives. Trained in Sociology and Anthropology, she has done fieldwork with Canadian border officers and transborder truck drivers. Her current research further investigates borders along two axes. The first inquires into the digitalization of immigration governance and border control. The second inquires into how subnational welfare/immigration regimes border social reproduction in an era of rapid global aging and care deficits.