| Summary: | Despite their obvious differences, a comparison of Jersey with Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is pertinent due to their respective institutional statuses and locations. Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, situated close to the Canadian island of Newfoundland, is fully included within the French Republic but doesn't belong to European Union. It therefore has greater room for manoeuvre than metropolitan France in the tax and customs fields. Jersey, a British Crown dependency, lies 24 kilometres off the Cotentin Peninsula, part of the French region of Basse-Normandie. Not part of the United Kingdom, and, by extension, outside of the EU, it has been able to develop a set of skilled activities, mainly in the financial sector. Each at their quite different level and temporality, these island-border territories are therefore institutional and geographical margins that have tended to develop dematerialised activities with an extended spatial system. In addition to this issue, the paper will also address another aspect of the islands, a revival of awareness and interest in their historical links to their neighbouring regions. The resurgence of these can noticed with regard to Jersey, for which it seems like a counterbalance to the global drift their financial industry creates, and with regard to Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, especially concerning the reactivation of links with francophone Canadian Acadia.
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