El Sur También Existe: Imagining futures

Guantánamo is infamous as a site of extra-legal detention in the wake of 9/11; more than a single site, it is part of a web of the United States’ militarization operating in the Global South. An area of the military base is now being revitalized as a new camp for climate change–related mass migration events predicted to occur throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. In February 2018, RQ Construction, LLC (Carlsbad, California) won a 23-million-dollar contract to build a “Contingency Mass Migration Complex” at Guantánamo to house migrants and personnel at the military base in a massive tent city. Though less explicitly worded, other large Department of Defense awards for work at Guantánamo point toward extensive infrastructure development as recently as March 2019. The United States’ militarized response to climate-based migration is an extension of the logic through which economic and political refugees are branded criminals or terrorists.

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Performance-based Logistics

Der Betriebswirt: Volume 54, Issue 3 - Der Betriebswirt ◽

10.3790/dbw.53.1.22 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 22-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Björn Asdecker ◽

Wolfgang Kruck ◽

Reinhold Kohler

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Department Of Defense ◽

The United States ◽

United States Department ◽

Anglo Saxon ◽

States Department ◽

Success Stories ◽

The Military

In Zeiten knapper Kassen und sinkender Budgets gab das US-Verteidigungsministerium 2001 bekannt, zukünftig verstärkt das Konzept der „Performance-based Logistics“ (PBL) zur Verschlankung der militärischen Supply Chain einzusetzen. Bestärkt durch die bisherigen Erfolge im angelsächsischen Raum, findet der Ansatz mittlerweile auch in Europa große Beachtung. Der vorliegende Beitrag verfolgt das Ziel, den PBL-Begriff zu erläutern und den Innovationsgehalt des Konzepts kritisch zu hinterfragen. Darauf aufbauend gelingt die Identifikation von Anwendungspotenzialen in der zivilen Logistik. In 2001, when money was tight and budgetary resources limited, the United States Department of Defense announced the further implementation of “Performance-based Logistics” (PBL), a concept which was supposed to streamline the military supply chain. After some quite impressive success stories in the Anglo-Saxon world, the concept now attracts some interest in Europe. Therefore, this article pursues the goal of answering the following three questions: (1) What does PBLactually stand for? (2) What is the innovative contribution of the concept? (3) What potentials exist for the application of PBL in civil logistics? Keywords: performance based logistics

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Self-Selection and Host Country Context in the Economic Assimilation of Political Refugees in the United States, Sweden, and Israel

International Migration Review ◽

10.1111/imre.12309 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 524-558 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Debora Pricila Birgier ◽

Christer Lundh ◽

Yitchak Haberfeld ◽

Erik Elldér

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Natural Experiment ◽

The United States ◽

Economic Assimilation ◽

Host Countries ◽

Military Regimes ◽

Self Selection ◽

Political Refugees ◽

The Military ◽

Positive Effect

We study the interplay between host countries’ characteristics and self-selection patterns in relation to refugees’ economic assimilation using a natural experiment in which immigrants from one region migrated to three destinations under similar circumstances. We focus on emigrants fleeing from Argentina and Chile during the military regimes there to the United States, Sweden, and Israel. We find that those refugees show patterns of selection and assimilation similar to those of economic immigrants. Immigrants to the United States and Israel exhibit better selection patterns and consequently faster assimilation than immigrants to Sweden even considering the positive effect of the Swedish market structure.

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Latin America: Demographic Dynamics and the Migration Processes Transformation

Outlines of global transformations politics economics law ◽

10.23932/2542-0240-2020-13-1-7 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 119-140

Author(s):

N. Yu. Kudeyarova

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Latin America ◽

Central America ◽

Latin American ◽

Regional Integration ◽

The United States ◽

Western Hemisphere ◽

Migration Activity ◽

Mass Migration ◽

The Caribbean

Latin America is one of the high level migration activity regions. The mass migration flows are the part of the Western Hemisphere South nations history for more than a century and a half. Both the structure and direction of that flows have been significantly transformed during that period. While being the transatlantic flows recipients at the end of the XIX – beginning of the XX centuries, the Latin American States turned into donors of human resources in the second half of the XX century due to the profound demographic transformation. The aim of this paper is to analyse the demographic transformations impact on the emigration mobility models development in Latin America and the Caribbean countries. Demographic changes were manifested in different ways in countries with a large share of European migrants and those that were not affected by mass migrations flows at the turn of the XIX – XX centuries. The Central America countries and Mexico have experienced the most profound population explosion that subsequently affected the intensity of the migration movement to the United States. The paper examines the main migration directions of Latin America and the Caribbean residents, identifies two basic mobility source areas that demonstrate different strategies via different destination countries choice. While the United States has become the leading destination country for Latin American migrants, accounting for 93% of migrants from Central America and Mexico, the South American migration is mostly intraregional. The largest regional integration associations migration policies implementation reflects this difference. Spain has become a significant extra-regional migration destination for South America. At the end of the second decade of the XXI century, global economic transformations affect the migration dynamics of Latin American subregions, producing powerful migration crises and local tensions.

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Women, Gender, and the Revocation of Citizenship in the United States

Social Currents ◽

10.1177/2329496517725331 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 15-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ben Herzog ◽

Julia Adams

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Citizenship Status ◽

Extreme Measure ◽

History Of ◽

A Site ◽

Citizenship Laws ◽

The Military ◽

Citizenship Regime

Taking away citizenship, as an extreme measure, defines its boundaries by specifying acts that are deemed nationally desirable and undesirable. The history of expatriation in the United States serves as a case study for the interaction between gender and the limits of modern citizenship status. Citizenship laws and mechanisms of revocation in the United States were explicitly patriarchal until 1922; until then, women lost their citizenship on marriage to a foreign citizen. The laws regarding revocation of citizenship have continued to target prototypically masculine behaviors, particularly those bearing on the military defense of the state. Since the 1920s moment, women in the United States exist in a contradictory citizenship regime: paradoxically endowed with relative immunity from certain forms of regulation and punishment as their status as active political individuals remains a site of struggle.

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AWOL in the military: A serious and costly problem: Report to the Congress, by the Comptroller General of the united states

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e434982008-001 ◽

1979 ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

The Military

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The Military Railroad System of the United States

Scientific American ◽

10.1038/scientificamerican12031864-355 ◽

1864 ◽

Vol 11 (23) ◽

pp. 355-355

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Railroad System ◽

The Military

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The Washington Consensus, liberal ideas and terms of the military-technological policy

National Interests Priorities and Security ◽

10.24891/ni.16.11.2103 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 16 (11) ◽

pp. 2103-2123

Author(s):

V.L. Gladyshevskii ◽

E.V. Gorgola ◽

D.V. Khudyakov

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Production Management ◽

Developed Countries ◽

The United States ◽

Internal Quality ◽

Industrial Complex ◽

Active Involvement ◽

Military Industrial Complex ◽

Industrial Complexes ◽

The Military

Subject. In the twentieth century, the most developed countries formed a permanent military economy represented by military-industrial complexes, which began to perform almost a system-forming role in national economies, acting as the basis for ensuring national security, and being an independent military and political force. The United States is pursuing a pronounced militaristic policy, has almost begun to unleash a new "cold war" against Russia and to unwind the arms race, on the one hand, trying to exhaust the enemy's economy, on the other hand, to reindustrialize its own economy, relying on the military-industrial complex. Objectives. We examine the evolution, main features and operational distinctions of the military-industrial complex of the United States and that of the Russian Federation, revealing sources of their military-technological and military-economic advancement in comparison with other countries. Methods. The study uses military-economic analysis, scientific and methodological apparatus of modern institutionalism. Results. Regulating the national economy and constant monitoring of budget financing contribute to the rise of military production, especially in the context of austerity and crisis phenomena, which, in particular, justifies the irrelevance of institutionalists' conclusions about increasing transaction costs and intensifying centralization in the industrial production management with respect to to the military-industrial complex. Conclusions. Proving to be much more efficient, the domestic military-industrial complex, without having such access to finance as the U.S. military monopolies, should certainly evolve and progress, strengthening the coordination, manageability, planning, maximum cost reduction, increasing labor productivity, and implementing an internal quality system with the active involvement of the State and its resources.

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